On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:50:12 -0400, Christopher Wright
<[email protected]> wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
I can't wait for D to take over the world, so I no longer have to write
in this horrid language ;)
C# is pretty reasonable. I see a fair number of things in recent
versions that have been in D for a while, and some other vaguely neat
things that D doesn't have on occasion.
I'm still stuck on 2.0, but that's mostly because I don't want to port to
3.0, so maybe C# has gotten better, but you identified some of the same
views I have.
My main complaint with C# is a lack of interesting template
capabilities. For example, I find that I often need two classes that are
extremely similar with some minor exceptions, and in D I could just use
a simple template, whereas in C# I have to duplicate the entire class.
Yes, and generics are noticably inferior. They aren't even close to
templates. I hate how you have to specify the base class in order to use
any methods on a parameterized type.
I was surprised to learn it had some sort of equivalent to IFTI.
On the other hand, my main complaint with D is the lack of reflection,
including attributes. I rarely use reflection in C#, but I make
extensive use of libraries that use reflection a lot (Rhino Mocks, the
Castle project, NHibernate...)
Yes, I use reflection in some of my code, and it definitely has to come to
D sometime. At least if I wanted to port my current project to D it would
have to ;)
-Steve
