Why all the D hate?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"retard" <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote in message 
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> Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:44:38 +0000, dsimcha wrote:
>
>>> I think having a SafeD environemnt on .NET/JVM might be an interesting
>>> exercise. However, the language doesn't have many interesting new
>>> features to justify its existence on either platform.
>>
>> Don't D's compile-time introspection and generic programming abilities
>> count for something?  They're the biggest reason I use D over C# or
>> Java, and AFAIK D is the most mainstream language with a comparable
>> level of compile time metaprogramming ability.
>
> Those are quite expressive features. However, without the close to metal
> aspect, D is too close to C# in my opinion.

So if you're writing something that needs to run on .NET, and you have to 
choose between [what you see as] two nearly identical languages, but one has 
good generic programming and the other just has generics, and they're 
ridiculously gimped generics at that, you'd rather use the latter?