One of the most pleasant features of the D language is its implementation of slices. Every time I use a programming language that isn't D, I find myself lamenting for D's slice syntax. Not only is it concise and efficient, but things "just work" when you are dealing with slices.

I'll go over some of the background and internals of D slices and arrays, and hopefully after reading this, you will have a clearer understanding of the proper ways to use D slices, as well as an idea of how fundamentally different they are than normal arrays!