Java > Scala

[Jeff Nowakowski]

On 11/30/2011 01:38 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> Yes, it is. What I meant by the "large and heavy rock" is the difficulty
> of expressing any sort of semantics that are not Java semantics in the
> JVM bytecode.

Fair enough.

> In C++, one does all the memory management manually.

But in C++ libraries are designed with this in mind. You didn't address 
his point: "Unless you want to do all of the memory management yourself, 
which pretty much results in not using phobos and most of the cool 
features in D."

And isn't the point of D to relieve you of the burden of doing stuff 
like memory management? You should read Tim Sweeney's (Gears of War 
developer) "The Next Mainstream Programming Language", where the slide 
for Gameplay Simulation says, "Usually garbage-collected." I assume by 
this he means that for C++ the developers end up writing their own 
garbage collector inside the program.

http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-fp/docs/sweeny.pdf

If D could demonstrably solve the problems outlined in these slides, 
you'd have a whole industry at your fingertips.