== Quote from Christopher Wright (dhase...@gmail.com)'s article > 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.
What the heck do you need generics for when you have real templates? To me, generics seem like just a lame excuse for templates.
