Interesting Observation from JAXLondon

[Joakim]

On Thursday, 11 October 2018 at 07:58:39 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> This was supposed to come to this list not the learn list.
>
> On Thu, 2018-10-11 at 07:57 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
>> It seems that in the modern world of Cloud and Kubernetes, and 
>> the charging
>> model of the Cloud vendors, that the startup times of JVMs is 
>> becoming a
>> financial problem. A number of high profile companies are 
>> switching from
>> Java
>> to Go to solve this financial difficulty.
>> 
>> It's a pity D is not in there with a pitch.
>> 
>> I suspect it is because the companies have heard of Go (and 
>> Rust), but not
>> D.

I doubt D could make a pitch that would be heard, no google 
behind it and all that jazz. D is better aimed at startups like 
Weka who're trying to disrupt the status quo than Java shops 
trying to sustain it, while shaving off some up-front time.