What say you?
I feel like the odd man out here since my perspective is so different. I use custom container classes even in C++, partly because I can usually get better performance that way, and because I can customize the the container however I like. So I will probably be doing my own containers if/when I use D.
Beyond that, my own personal preferences seem so different that I hesitate to mention them. I use dynamic arrays by far the most out of all container classes. I use them so much that I cringe at the thought of allocating them on the GC heap. My code is very high performance and I would like to keep it that way.
Also, my usage of arrays is such that most of them are empty, so it is important to me that the empty arrays are stored efficiently. Using my custom container class, an empty array does not require a heap allocation, and only requires a single pointer to be allocated.
Not sure if these requirements are important to anyone else, but I don't mind making my own custom containers if I need to.
