D and the world

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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:35:17 +0400, Bill Baxter  
<dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote:

>> But my point was: because of nature of Nemerle it is very hard to  
>> compete with it in metaprogramming area.
>
> But fortunately Nemerle is very easy to compete with in areas such as  
> "compiling to native binaries" and "working cross-platform" and  
> "generating native code" and "writing device drivers".  :-)

Only with two of them: "compiling to native binaries" and "writing device  
drives" :)
Because Nemerle is developing mainly on Linux and Mono ("working  
cross-platform") and AFAIK, MSIL compiled into native code by JIT at the  
first run ("generating native code"). And on MS .Net implementation  
Nemerle has a very good garbage collector.

But D is competitive with Nemerle because Nemerle is .Net based language.  
So it would have good run-time system only on MS platforms. AFAIK, Mono is  
not 100% compatible with MS .Net, so writing cross-platform programs in  
.Net languages will be a hard task.

I think the major concurent of D in cross-platform development should be  
Java, not .Net.

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Regards,
Yauheni Akhotnikau