D vs Java

[Jari-Matti Mäkelä]

Charles wrote:
>> That's very nice, but it has been many years and still I'VE NEVER seen a
>> quick Java app in my life (maybe two or tree very small programs).
> 
> Do you mean desktop apps ?  If so I agree they usually are unbearably
> slow -- the only exception to this seems to be SWT apps.

Ahem, AFAIK Eclipse is the primary desktop app using SWT and it's damn
slow on Linux (although the weakest link in the chain seems to be GTK+,
not SWT, I think).