D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[Manu]

On 12 May 2012 12:26, Timon Gehr <timon.gehr at gmx.ch> wrote:

> On 05/12/2012 10:13 AM, Manu wrote:
>
>> On 11 May 2012 21:28, Mehrdad <wfunction at hotmail.com
>> <mailto:wfunction at hotmail.com>**> wrote:
>>
>>    Yes, I agree, but consider that D users should NOT have to work with
>>    pointers to do something so basic
>>
>>
>> I'd like to think this were true, but the fact that 'ref' barely works
>> makes this almost immediately false when trying to write any non-trivial
>> program.
>>
>
> It depends on the coding style.
>

If the distinction is whether one likes to have data structures in their
code or not, I reckon there's a reasonably large user base in the former? :)
Once you use 'struct' you can't avoid pointers, given that ref just doesn't
work in many (perhaps most) situations.
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