Where will D sit in the web service space?

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On Friday, 24 July 2015 at 14:55:59 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> So Obj-C/Swift aren't as efficient as C/C++, but nobody is 
> using those as the main language on any mobile platform- for 
> very good reasons, including that nobody other than game 
> developers wants to deal with them- and as native languages, 
> Obj-C and Swift are still much more efficient than the JIT-ed 
> or interpreted, non-native languages, which is why Android 
> finally switched from JIT-ing Java to AoT/native compilation 
> recently.

People have used C++ for both native mobile development 
(symbian?) and for cross-platform development (e.g. mosync). 
However Android and iOS deliberately set  out to kill off 
cross-platform development a few years ago by making GUI kits 
incompatible and tool-based. So writing GUIs in other languages 
than Obj-C/Java became tedious.

I found it much easier to use Mosync-C++ than Objective-C, to be 
honest. But it is now a dead technology.