Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Laeeth Isharc]

On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 17:08:26 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> 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.

New things grow at the fringes.  See the work of Clayton 
Christensen and his book the Innovator's Dilemma.  A head-on 
assault is ill-advised.  People looking for salvation are easier 
to talk to than those who don't see anything wrong with what 
they're doing currently.