A Perspective on D from game industry

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d]

Brian Rogoff:

> On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 12:20:13 UTC, bearophile wrote:

>> A language has both ~native efficiency and is usable for that 
>> level of interactivity is Julia :-)
>
> My own experiments with Julia massively contradict that 
> statement. I wrote some basic scripting programs that read 
> large text files into hash tables which count word occurrences 
> and Julia's performance was abysmal compared to D and Java.

Julia is in its infancy, while the JavaVM is the product of a lot 
of work and tuning. I even expect Julia associative arrays to be 
currently a little slower than CPython dicts :-) So it will take 
years. But both D and Java are not as dynamic as Julia.

Bye,
bearophile