"retard" <r...@tard.com.invalid> wrote in message news:i516du$v0...@digitalmars.com... > Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:44:38 +0000, dsimcha wrote: > >>> I think having a SafeD environemnt on .NET/JVM might be an interesting >>> exercise. However, the language doesn't have many interesting new >>> features to justify its existence on either platform. >> >> Don't D's compile-time introspection and generic programming abilities >> count for something? They're the biggest reason I use D over C# or >> Java, and AFAIK D is the most mainstream language with a comparable >> level of compile time metaprogramming ability. > > Those are quite expressive features. However, without the close to metal > aspect, D is too close to C# in my opinion.
So if you're writing something that needs to run on .NET, and you have to choose between [what you see as] two nearly identical languages, but one has good generic programming and the other just has generics, and they're ridiculously gimped generics at that, you'd rather use the latter?