Could D have fit Microsoft's needs?

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2019-07-22 at 07:06 +0000, Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 
[…]
> Kotlin will never win the hearts of all Java devs, because 
> platform languages always win in the end, so it will just limp 
> along just like any other JVM alternative language.
> 
> […]

There is often a deeply conservative approach within medium-sized and big
organisations such that programmers stick with Java and only start using new
Java features when there is a change of (usually LTS) JVM/JDK version. This
has it's real downsides as well as upsides.

What is really sad in the JVM-based milieu in far too many organisations is
the use of Java and only Java. So many of the systems would benefit from
making use of multiple languages on the JVM, in particular Java/Groovy or
Java/Clojure to get statically typed and dynamically typed subsystems. Whilst
the JVM was created for Java, it is now an inherently multi-paradigm platform.

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Russel.
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