Porting C# code

[Don]

Brien wrote:
> 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.

He's talking about his converter program, not about D!

> 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#?

D is trying to be exactly that. We don't have the infrastructure yet, 
though. So the productivity gains are a bit theoretical at present...