D vs Java

[james]

>I agree. The job of the operating system is to sandbox processes so that 
>when one dies, it is isolated from all the others, which it does a 
>reasonably good job doing (but it could do better). The CPU hardware 
>certainly is set up to support this. You can even run Windows entirely in a 
>virtual machine! 
>

The real test of a language/technology is "eating your own dogfood". And its
interesting to note that MS seem to be pulling back abit from putting the clr
very deep into the os. Rather .net classes are just wrappers for c++. A much
better approach is D plus DMDScript. 

Will DMDScript implement the forthcoming ECMAScript v4 spec which hopefully will
make it a decent all round scripting language. It seems like scripting languages
are converging on a certain set of semantics.