Moving back to .NET

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 09:12:11 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> C++11 and 14 have closed the gap, but the two are still quite 
> distinct. That doesn't necessarily mean that D is better in all 
> cases, but D is definitely not just C++ with a GC.

It isn't "just C++", but D as a language is close enough to be 
considered a close relative. So if you are used to implementing 
libraries in C++, the jump to D is not a big jump.

Where D1 was  a move towards creating a more constrained 
environment by adding builtin language features (a design ideal 
that is closer to where Go is, compared to C++), D2 has been and 
IMO still is moving towards features being done in libraries much 
like C++.

There are differences across the board, but they are minor, not 
major differences. Lambdas are done slightly different, 
templating is slightly different, traits are done somewhat 
different, object init is slightly different, exceptions are 
slightly different, operators are done slightly different, but 
you can roughly express the same things in roughly the same way 
with some exceptions.