"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message news:gus0lu$1sm...@digitalmars.com...
> I've repeatedly failed to figure out the coolness of C#, and would > appreciate a few pointers. Or references. Or delegates :o). Outside of this group, I think most of the people considering C# really cool are people who are unaware of D and are coming to C# from Java. What's "cool" about C# is that it's like a less-shitty version of Java (and *had* good tools, although the newer versions of VS are almost as much of a bloated unresponsive mess as Eclipse - Which come to think of it, makes me wonder - If Java has gotten so fast as many people claim, why is Eclipse still such a sluggish POS?). Compare C# to D though and most of the coolness fades, even though there are still a handful of things I think D could still learn from C# (but there's probably more than a handful that C# could learn from D).