D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[akaz]

> What started out as C with classes started acquiring this 
> feature and
> that feature until the whole thing is just a haphazard heap of
> misfitting self-contradictory pieces, which requires an 
> enormous amount
> of essentially-arbitrary rules just to clarify something as 
> simple as,
> for example, automatic type conversions.

Partially, this also can be told about D, too. It started as a 
cleaner C++ (I think) and grew up a bit complicated.

Before arguing the contrary, please remember that C++ looks not 
complicated to Stroustrup.

Maybe simply addressing the most bitter drawbacks and 
inconsistencies of C++ (and when I say that, I say notably syntax 
stupidities, *then* conceptual stupidities) was enough for, let's 
say, D_v1. Then, more, for D_v2. Maybe trying to address too much 
at once?

My feeling (I tried to port and work something in D) is that it 
is a good language. But a complicate one and the learning time 
tends to be limited today.

C caught in the first place for its simplicity. Java, too ("hey, 
no pointers!"). Annotations and other hell were added later, 
*after* the naguage got assimilated. C# too ("hey! C++ made 
*simpler*!"). Then it was C#2, 3, 4 etc. True, C++ grew up a 
complicated beast, but *gradually*. At the beginning, it was not.

D does not have that gradualism in growing complicated. Not for 
its developers, but for its (mass) users.