Porting C# code

[Brien]

BCS Wrote:
> That might be viable but the system was never intended for speed (its intent 
> was as a way to escape needing Mono on a non Windows system) so you would 
> be stuck having to write D code in C#. 

Ok, that's good to know.  I assumed because D billed itself as a "systems" programming language that performance would be paramount.

I'm sure I'm the millionth person to ask this, but- is there a language out there that is bare metal like C/C++ with the friendlier syntax and developer productivity of Java/C#?