GoingNative 6: The D Episode with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

[Jeff Nowakowski]

On 02/23/2012 11:57 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>
> I still cannot fathom how the Scala guys thought using the JVM was a
> good idea.

It gave them a good garbage collector (an area that has held D's 
performance back for years), a large library via Java compatibility, and 
a population of users to appeal to. Scala probably wouldn't have 
succeeded if it was just another object-oriented language without ties 
to the JVM.