Lost a new commercial user this week :(

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 11:53:56 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> I have seen this in every project where we replaced legacy C++ 
> systems by new ones implemented in .NET and Java.
>
> First people will complain that the performance isn't 
> comparable, they are bloated, and so on.
>
> The project goes forward, as it was a management decision.
>
> Then it goes live, some hiccups that make existing C++ 
> developers rejoice that they were right after all
>
> Lots of bug reports get generated and application performance 
> gets fine-tuned.
>
> A few months later systems are running, end users barely see 
> any difference and a few C++ developers saying that the new 
> systems aren't that bad after all.

I don't doubt that this has been your experience on enterprise 
projects with a known and stable userbase, but you can't tell me 
you were able to support the same amount of users per server 
using java/.net as C++.  Paying for more servers but less for 
java/.net development may be a worthwhile tradeoff for such 
stable enterprise rollouts, but any time you have to scale, I 
doubt java/.net can keep up.

As always, different tools for different uses.  Hopefully, D can 
one day be polished and mainstream enough for the enterprise use 
case and it will be efficient enough to be deployed at scale too. 
:)