Compilation strategy

[Walter Bright]

On 12/16/2012 11:24 PM, 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 !

Yes, I know you're being sarcastic.

But consider that Amazon uses Java heavily. They don't care about source 
obfuscation, because they don't ship source code or .class libraries. They don't 
sell Java code at all. Source obfuscation is irrelevant to them.