Porting C# code

[BCS]

Hello Brien,

> BCS Wrote:
> 
>> That might be viable but the system was never intended for speed (its
>> intent was as a way to escape needing Mono on a non Windows system)
>> so you would be stuck having to write D code in C#.
>> 
> Ok, that's good to know.  I assumed because D billed itself as a
> "systems" programming language that performance would be paramount.
> 
> I'm sure I'm the millionth person to ask this, but- is there a
> language out there that is bare metal like C/C++ with the friendlier
> syntax and developer productivity of Java/C#?
> 

(Ignoraing IDE/tool chain issues) Yes, D.

It's just that if you write code for C# can do literal translation to D you 
won't be getting some of the available speed advantages that D can give you. 
You end up with the union of the problems and the intersect of the advantages.