Will Java go native?

[Chris]

On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 11:05:17 UTC, Dmitry Leskov wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 September 2013 at 09:17:47 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 05:23:15 UTC, Dmitry Leskov 
>> wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 09:44:30 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>>> Yes, the whole issue of decompilation was also an issue. 
>>>> Funnily enough, a few years ago I wrote an email to 
>>>> Excelsior asking if you guys offer a discount for academia. 
>>>> Our project would have qualified as "non-commercial use". 
>>>> But I never got an answer. So I started looking for 
>>>> alternatives, and here I am now :-)
>>>
>>> We respond to all requests that look legit. Sending from a 
>>> university email address certainly helps, not least because 
>>> our responses to free email users, especially Gmail, often 
>>> end up in the Junk Mail folder, probably because they talk 
>>> about "free", "download", and such...
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dmitry
>>
>> I sent the email from my university email address and the spam 
>> filter is clever enough to know that it shouldn't filter 
>> answers from email addresses I have sent an email to, even if 
>> the words "free" etc appear. If in doubt, at least it asks me. 
>> Anyway, I switched to D and don't regret it. Also how do you 
>> define "legit"? If I send an email with a simple question "do 
>> you offer a discount for university projects?" or the like, 
>> why am I not entitled to an answer? Why is it not "legit"? 
>> Because I didn't include an elaborate description of the 
>> project? Why should I, if I don't even know that you offer a 
>> discount? Would be a waste of time, if the answer is a plain 
>> "No!". This said, I don't rule it out that you answered the 
>> email and that it got lost on the way. This happens sometimes.
>
> If you asked a question like that, we most definitely 
> responded. If you still have that email you sent us back in the 
> day, would you please forward it to me?
>
> My email address is on the Contact page of our Web site.

Fair enough, I've forwarded the email. But the code has been 
rewritten in D and works on all platforms natively (including 
Windows, if you want to call that a platform).