free idea please steal, a goose inspired d preprocessor

[monkyyy]

On Friday, 23 October 2026 at 03:28:45 UTC, Kapendev wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 20:06:56 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>> background: goose won this bench mark there was twitter drama
>> https://kostya.github.io/LangArena/ language benchmarks still 
>> need to ask the languages for their best work. blah blah blah.
>>
>> A vibe coded language(ive heard using "only" a 200$ month 
>> plan), added templates, nullables, sumtypes, and a opinionated 
>> default slicable data structure that compiles down to C
>>
>> D still has the fundamental issues around slices being both a 
>> dynamic array and reference, that spookily breaks 
>> unnecessarily.
>
> By spooky, we mean explicitly using the `~` operator or `length 
> =`?

yes

> `T[>..256]` could be added to the standard library.

You can not combine all features into all data structures, and a 
lib with d's forward pass only system cant detect that you need 
random access deletions 5 scopes away