Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"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).
Generics and reflection. Generics just hide a lot of casts, usually, but
that's still quite useful. And autoboxing is convenient, though not
appropriate for D.
