Compilation strategy

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, December 17, 2012 08:39:56 deadalnix wrote:
> On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 07:27:49 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
> 
> wrote:
> > On Monday, December 17, 2012 08:24:27 deadalnix wrote:
> >> On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 00:57:30 UTC, Walter Bright
> >> 
> >> wrote:
> >> > It doesn't hide the source in any effective way. There are
> >> > enough Java byte code => source translators around to prove
> >> > that. It only takes one such tool to exist (and it's
> >> > especially
> >> > easy to create such a tool given D being open source).
> >> 
> >> Oh, so that's why java is never used in any company !
> > 
> > Java is used quite heavily by companies.
> 
> No it isn't, because they are afraid of bytecode decoders like
> jad or JD.

There may very well be companies which avoid it because of that, but I don't 
see how you can possibly think that Java isn't used heavily in the corporate 
world, since it is.

- Jonathan M Davis