Java compilation [was GCs in the news]

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 27 July 2014 at 08:24:44 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 11:39 +0000, Paulo Pinto via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
>> In this specific case yes, but as I mentioned there are lots 
>> of uses cases being reported.
>
> It turns out to be a "known fact" even in Gradleware. Hans 
> mentions it
> specifically inhis "vision for the future" document of a month 
> ago.
>
> He also mentions that the C/C++ build aspects of Gradle are to 
> be used
> by the Android NDK folk. I already asked them about including D 
> in the
> package, but the response was "nobody uses D".

I am nobody.

> So maybe we (I guess this
> mean I) should do a user contributed patch to add D to the 
> whole thing.