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[Walter Bright]

On 11/30/2011 10:12 AM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 03:17 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> It has to run on the JVM, which is a large and heavy rock.
> The JVM garbage collector is miles ahead of D's.

Yes, it is. What I meant by the "large and heavy rock" is the difficulty of 
expressing any sort of semantics that are not Java semantics in the JVM bytecode.


> I think it's pitiful that a
> language that aims to be a C++ replacement has been an utter failure in the
> gaming area, the one area where C++ has reigned supreme.

In C++, one does all the memory management manually.