D vs VM-based platforms

[Jascha Wetzel]

isn't that mainly because Java's .class files also contain declarations?
in general it shouldn't be so easy to translate intermediate code back
to source code, especially if general optimizations have already been
applied.

Walter Bright wrote:
> Jascha Wetzel wrote:
>>> It's *already* abstracted away from the target machine, why add another
>>> layer of abstraction?
>>
>> to have a format for distribution that's still abstract but not human
>> readable.
> 
> There's no point to that, since there are very good bytecode => java
> source translators. Running your source through a comment stripper would
> be about as good.