D vs. C#

[Walter Bright]

Lutger wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> I've never been able to discover what the fundamental advantage of a 
>> VM is.
> 
> I thought the .NET platform was developed with the intent to replace 
> COM?

I don't know what MS's reasons were, but it seems strange to replace COM 
with something inaccessible from C++ (the main language used to 
interface with COM).

> And by extension, complementing and / or replacing the C way of 
> cross-talking between languages for application development.

Except that .net cannot talk to C or C++ code, which are the usual 
languages for applications.

All languages need to interoperate are a standard calling convention, 
not a wholly different environment.