[keldaris]

Excellent talk, it really makes one envious of the compile time facilities offered by D.

Do you see any other languages out there being amenable to at least ideologically similar techniques, or do you think this design paradigm will remain unique to D for the immediate future? In particular, I think some of the modern JIT-compiled languages, which often feature extensive reflection and runtime introspection capabilities, could theoretically be used in a similar way, as long as the compilation overhead incurred on the first run remains reasonably small. What are your thoughts on this?