D vs. C#

[Walter Bright]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> With a portable language, it is not necessary to distribute binaries. 
>> You can distribute the *source* code! Then, the user can just 
>> recompile it on the fly (this can be automated so the user never has 
>> to actually invoke the compiler). Just like how Javascript is 
>> distributed as source.
> 
> Too bad that D isn't such a language then ? One "version" for each 
> platform, and no autoconf or other helpers to cope with differences...

These are not problems with language, but with the relative lack of 
resources applied to the dev tools.

> As much as I do like D, the C language is *much* more portable - at
> least between the different GNU platforms (i.e. including MinGW too).

If D had its own VM, the same issue would exist, because you'd have to 
have staff to port the VM to all those platforms and debug them.