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

[Jeff Nowakowski]

On 02/24/2012 12:09 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>
> They could have used the CLI. Both MS.NET and Mono have good garbage
> collectors, and Mono in particular has SIMD intrinsics, an LLVM back
> end, etc.
>
> I've heard a lot of people complain that Scala doesn't run on .NET.

Scala initially ran on .NET, but there was more traction with the Java 
crowd, so they stopped supporting it. As I understand it, .NET support 
has recently been funded by Microsoft and is actively being worked on.

There was, and still is, a much greater need for Scala on the JVM than 
on .NET, because Java was stagnating while Microsoft's C# language was 
getting big improvements. As for Mono, there's a lot of mistrust against 
following Microsoft's lead from the Linux crowd. So while there's some 
interest in Scala on .NET, it pales in comparison to the JVM.