Why all the D hate?

[retard]

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:37:52 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> "retard" <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:i516du$v0k$2 at digitalmars.com...
>> Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:44:38 +0000, dsimcha wrote:
>>
>>>> I think having a SafeD environemnt on .NET/JVM might be an
>>>> interesting exercise. However, the language doesn't have many
>>>> interesting new features to justify its existence on either platform.
>>>
>>> Don't D's compile-time introspection and generic programming abilities
>>> count for something?  They're the biggest reason I use D over C# or
>>> Java, and AFAIK D is the most mainstream language with a comparable
>>> level of compile time metaprogramming ability.
>>
>> Those are quite expressive features. However, without the close to
>> metal aspect, D is too close to C# in my opinion.
> 
> So if you're writing something that needs to run on .NET, and you have
> to choose between [what you see as] two nearly identical languages, but
> one has good generic programming and the other just has generics, and
> they're ridiculously gimped generics at that, you'd rather use the
> latter?

For what's it worth, C# 4.0 also has many impressive features. You can 
see the list somewhere - something for the friends of dynamic typing, 
LINQ, lambda expressions etc. And it's not broken / a moving target 99% 
of the time => I can find 100 other commercial C# coders in just a few 
days.