GoingNative 6: The D Episode with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 24-02-2012 05:06, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> On 02/23/2012 11:57 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>>
>> I still cannot fathom how the Scala guys thought using the JVM was a
>> good idea.
>
> It gave them a good garbage collector (an area that has held D's
> performance back for years), a large library via Java compatibility, and
> a population of users to appeal to. Scala probably wouldn't have
> succeeded if it was just another object-oriented language without ties
> to the JVM.

They could have used the CLI. Both MS.NET and Mono have good garbage 
collectors, and Mono in particular has SIMD intrinsics, an LLVM back 
end, etc.

I've heard a lot of people complain that Scala doesn't run on .NET.

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- Alex