Tim Keating wrote:
Yigal Chripun Wrote:
personally I don't see a point in JVM/.NET - One of the best
things about D is that you get the ease of use of Ruby/python/etc
with the benefits of native compiling like in c/c++. Why throw that
away and make yet another version of Java/C# ?
Supporting .net would give you access to the most modern and probably
best-currently-supported Windows API. It would, if you counted Mono,
add a very nice cross-platform UI framework. Finally, depending on
what version was supported, it might enable you to write Silverlight
apps in D, permitting flash-like apps that run cross-functionally in
a web browser.
TK
You missed my point entirely. One of the major benefits of using D is
that you get the convinience of Ruby/Python and the speed of a natively
compiled language. using D on .net removes this very important benefit.
All the things you mentioned above can be acomplished already with C# or
any other .net language (visual C++) with the support of MS and all the
tools already available for it.
the most important benefit of D is the fact that it's natively compiled.
remove that and you'll get a roughly equivalent language to C#. at least
that's my opinion.
