D vs Java

[Sean Kelly]

james wrote:
>> I agree. The job of the operating system is to sandbox processes so that 
>> when one dies, it is isolated from all the others, which it does a 
>> reasonably good job doing (but it could do better). The CPU hardware 
>> certainly is set up to support this. You can even run Windows entirely in a 
>> virtual machine! 
> 
> The real test of a language/technology is "eating your own dogfood". And its
> interesting to note that MS seem to be pulling back abit from putting the clr
> very deep into the os. Rather .net classes are just wrappers for c++. A much
> better approach is D plus DMDScript. 

According to Herb Sutter, MS is pushing C++/CLI as *the* language to 
write .NET code in.  I suppose its rather unique ability to combine 
managed and unmanaged code in a single assembly has turned out to be 
more useful than originally anticipated.  So this seems to lend credence 
to the claim that Windows isn't going to turn into a pure .NET VM any 
time soon.  It's almost too bad, as I'm still hoping for an undeniable 
reason to drop Windows for an alternative OS ;-)


Sean