[andralex]

I think the lack of demand for it has been an indicator that ranges with additions are just enough. We're currently looking at adding optional primitives to ranges in a Design by Introspection manner to support bulk streaming of data.

[jeremiep]

I would definitely love to see range primitives support bulk streaming!

How about adding a byte buffer concept alongside with ranges? I'm thinking an API similar to Netty's ByteBuf but using D's compile-time capabilities instead. These would be valid ranges as well but offer direct byte access on top.

[jeremiep]

Also, while on the subject of status updates, what's the status of std.reflection? Any chance UDAs could be included in there? :)

It would be great if the reflection info could be outputted to a separate file for those cases where its only needed during program initialization or used by external tools.