D vs. C#

[Christopher Wright]

Radu wrote:
> Joel Lucsy wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> With a portable language, it is not necessary to distribute binaries. 
>>> You can distribute the *source* code! Then, the user can just 
>>> recompile it on the fly (this can be automated so the user never has 
>>> to actually invoke the compiler). Just like how Javascript is 
>>> distributed as source.
>>
>> .Net does not run in a VM, it is JIT compiled down to machine code. 
>> Assemblies *are* essentially source code. And, I belive in most cases, 
>> Javascript is either run on a VM, or JIT compiled just like .Net. And 
>> I suspect most browsers currently don't do JIT.
>>
> Any system or collection of services that translates an abstract 
> instruction set to a concrete one is a virtual machine: 

<nitpick>
Rather, it is a virtual machine if it executes abstract instructions, or 
interprets them for immediate execution. Compilers aren't VMs.
</nitpick>