D vs. C#

[David Brown]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:14:29AM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> If the source code is portable, i.e. there is no undefined or 
> implementation defined behavior, there's no reason that the VM object code 
> should be more portable than the source. (And remember all the troubles 
> with Java VMs behaving differently?)

In the smartphone market, source is almost never distributed.  Having
multiple architectures would require every software vendor to support
every desired architecture.  Having a VM allows them to easily
distribute a product that works on all phones instead of one.

For this market, at least, native code isn't really even an option.

Of course, since nearly all smart phones use a single processor (ARM),
this really isn't applicable.  The smart phone people do like the
sandbox aspect as well, though.

David