Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

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On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 16:40:21 UTC, Ramon wrote:
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You are completely right - templates are not generics. They are, 
ironically, much more generic and are to solve quite a simple 
problem - "copy-paste", in variety of forms.

If you think it is better to have an IDE to generate boilerplate 
instead of compiler, I can assure you, finding supporters in this 
community will be quite hard.

Insisting on the idea that implementing generic data types using 
run-time polymorphism costs is the True Way won't help either.

Honestly, I will never use any language that implies polymorphic 
design for stuff like container. Not of my free will at least. 
And every time I remember that boxing stuff in Java I have 
nightmares.

You want polymorphic approach - you have tools to implement it. 
Interfaces, classes, suit yourself. But, please, don't try to fix 
what is not broken.