Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2017-12-24 at 16:51 +0000, Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> 
[…]
> The big issues with Java and C# are the required infrastructure 
> for deployment. They could be the best languages since sliced 
> bread, they would still be annoying to deploy as the runtime is 
> an emulator.
> 
> I ported 1 app from Java to D. It was so unspectacular (or better 
> said it was spectacularly easy) that you're probably right. 
> Reaching to Java devs is a good idea. The advantage of Java 
> though, is not the language but the huge, huge, huge existing 
> libraries and packages and know how. This will be difficult to 
> overcome  for any language.
> 

But unless people submit proposals showing how D beats Java in direct
competition, the JVM focused people will never know. Take DevoxxUK and
JAXLondon the two primary JVM-related conferences in London. No mention
of Go or Rust, let alone D. Single language conferences are tools for
retaining people within the language, ditto programs such as Java
Champions. 
 
-- 
Russel.
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