Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright
<p><pre><code>    We nailed it with arrays (Jan Knepper’s idea), the
    basic template design, compile-time function execution 
   (CTFE)
</code></pre>
One of my favourite things about D is that it has a full compile-time D interpreter. You can do "template metaprogramming", so to speak, in the same language as D itself (it's probably a bit more fair to compare it to how lisp macros are "compile-time").<p>It's a bit sad that Rust is getting all of the attention in the spotlight, because D is a great, modern, safe language. If you've only heard about D 15 years ago and never tried it again, give it another look. The current D is really a new language, which was briefly called "D2" for a while.<p>Now, if Symantec could just fix the stupid licence of the reference compiler...<p><a href="https://forum.dlang.org/thread/lodjbuvdhimrvrdngldy@forum.dlang.org?page=1" rel="nofollow">https://forum.dlang.org/thread/lodjbuvdhimrvrdngldy@forum.dl...</a>