DMD 0.177 release

[Ivan Senji]

Alexander Panek wrote:
> Ivan Senji wrote:
>> Boris Kolar wrote:
>>> PS: I really appreciate all the work that has been put in D. D is going
>>> to be a much needed successor of C++. I don't see D as competitor to
>>> Java or C# (I think that when using .NET or JVM is an option, D would
>>> be a terrible choice), but it sure can rock the non-VM world!
>>
>> Why not? I think that D could rock the .NET world too. I always wished
>> (and still do) for a d.net implementation.
> 
> ..NET is not the solution for all problems. 

Naturally. That is why we are here (using D).

> There will be other library 
> approaches that maybe even perform better and use features of D that 
> make it like .NET on steroids. I bet after some time of an official, 
> fixed D 1.0 specification, there will some libraries pop up that may 
> serve needs like .NET or J2EE and what not do, also.

I sure hope so.
What I was trying to say programming in .NET is sometimes required and 
in those cases i would prefer D rather than C# or (even worse) VB.

> 
> Apart from that.. hey, you're posting this in the official D newsgroup ;) .

Is that a problem? :)