Dlang seems like java now,but why not let d more like C# Style?

[Ellery Newcomer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 23:57:33 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 23:46:28 UTC, Ellery Newcomer 
> wrote:
>> And C# has LINQ, which when combined with the last point is 
>> fricken awesome.
>
> what does LINQ offer that UFCS-style functional programming 
> does not?

LINQ basically is a UFCS-style api. AST reflection is what makes 
it nice.

consider:

X.Where(x => x.Members.Count() == x.Admins.Count())

straightforward in both D and C# when X is an array or container 
type.

When X is a table in a database, things get tricky for D.

C# can interpret the lambda as an Expression<Func> (an AST type), 
so the implementation of X can reflect over the body of the 
lambda and use it to generate the appropriate SQL. ORMs such as 
entity framework and nhibernate do this now.