A Perspective on D from game industry

[Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 12:20:13 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Peter Alexander:
>> http://c0de517e.blogspot.ca/2014/06/where-is-my-c-replacement.html?m=1
>
> From the post:
>
>>If I have to point at what is most needed for productivity, I'd 
>>say interactivity. Interactive visualization, manipulation, 
>>REPLs, exploratory programming, live-coding.<
>
> A language has both ~native efficiency and is usable for that 
> level of interactivity is Julia :-)

My own experiments with Julia massively contradict that 
statement. I wrote some basic scripting programs that read large 
text files into hash tables which count word occurrences and 
Julia's performance was abysmal compared to D and Java.