Dlang seems like java now,but why not let d more like C# Style?

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On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 23:46:28 UTC, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 13:52:13 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh 
> wrote:
>>
>> I don't have any C# experience so I can't compare those 
>> languages much, but I've heard people say their are D / C# 
>> similarities.
>>
>> Anyway, this isn't a criticism of your comment, I was just 
>> curious what (other than the shared C++ syntax heritage) you 
>> find so Java-like in D?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Craig
>
> I've been using C# pretty extensively for the last year or so. 
> Superficially, at least, C# and D are pretty similar, eg auto 
> (var), foreach, lambdas, classes and structs. C# is more biased 
> towards OO than D.
>
> Metaprogramming is significantly weaker in C#. This is probably 
> the one area where I've wished for some of D's functionality.
>
> Reflection is all runtime.
>
> C# has some AST capabilities that D doesn't. This is probably 
> the main area where I envy C# when using D.
>
> And C# has LINQ, which when combined with the last point is 
> fricken awesome.

You should give C# a try, its actually great. The only thing that 
holds me back is that its maintained by microsoft, Multi Platform 
support is sub par, and it cant be targeted towards other 
architectures.