Using D

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Aug 25 22:58:33 PDT 2014


On 8/25/2014 2:01 AM, Chris 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).

I haven't ported much Java code, but I have found D code to be significantly 
easier to port than C++.

The varying sizes of basic types in C++ is what causes most of the problems.


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