Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[PauloPinto]

On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 05:22:17 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 17:45:29 UTC, Ramon wrote:
>> On another perspective: Consider this question "Would you be 
>> willing to have all your software (incl. OS) running 10% or 
>> even 20% slower but without bugs, leaks, (unintended) 
>> backdoors and the like?"
>>
>> My guess: Upwards of 80% would happily chime "YES!".
>
> Would you accept it if it means a 3x slowdown and no real time 
> capabilities (no video games for instance) ?

I would, because my experience with Native Oberon and AOS (Blue 
Bottle),
teached me that those real time capabilities are possible in a 
desktop
OS written in a GC enabled systems programming language.

As example, BlueBottle has a video player, just the decoder has 
some snippets written in Assembly.

http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/WindowManager?action=download&upname=AosScreenshot1.jpg


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Paulo