OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[Christopher Wright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
> news:gus0lu$1smj$2 at 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.