Running D in the Java VM

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On Thursday, 21 November 2013 at 07:35:01 UTC, Volcz wrote:
> On Sunday, 17 November 2013 at 05:49:43 UTC, John J wrote:
>> On 11/15/2013 02:13 AM, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>> If it should survive as an alternative, Jave should have some 
>> more advantages over D, even after the D compiles to ARM.
>
> The Android NDK is only a second class citizen compared to the 
> Java SDK. The only use case I have heard of for the NDK is when 
> companies have a small C library with common functionality to 
> make porting the products to other platforms easier.

That's not true. Most games are written entirely with NDK. Many 
applications, too (the app my team shipped recently contains a 
fair amount of C++ code in it, and it only grows).