Using D

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 09:01 +0000, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
> The main thing that put me off Java was not so much the fact that 
> you're restricted to OOP and that it's verbose etc., but that it 
> caused all sorts of problems when shipping the actual programs. 
> "Write once run everywhere" is a myth, if you ask me. D is much 
> closer to that than Java. In the end we encountered so many 
> problems that I dumped Java for cross platform development (and 
> for development in general). Nobody in the Java world ever talks 
> about this, but cross platform doesn't really work (apart from 
> running simple programs).
[…]

Java is not really an object-oriented programming language. OK it has
classes, inheritance, and method calls, but it is not founded on message
passing. For example:

	a + b

is not a message in Java as it is in C++, Python, etc.

Write Once Run Anywhere (WORA) has been a known fallacy since about
1995 ;-) Versions of things really are a bit of a
dependency/configuration nightmare. Maven Central and Gradle help
somewhat for the JVM, but then there is the shared library nightmare for
all other platforms.

-- 
Russel.
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