On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 17:08:26 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Sun, 2017-12-24 at 16:51 +0000, Patrick Schluter via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
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The big issues with Java and C# are the required
infrastructure for deployment. They could be the best
languages since sliced bread, they would still be annoying to
deploy as the runtime is an emulator.
I ported 1 app from Java to D. It was so unspectacular (or
better said it was spectacularly easy) that you're probably
right. Reaching to Java devs is a good idea. The advantage of
Java though, is not the language but the huge, huge, huge
existing libraries and packages and know how. This will be
difficult to overcome for any language.
But unless people submit proposals showing how D beats Java in
direct
competition, the JVM focused people will never know. Take
DevoxxUK and
JAXLondon the two primary JVM-related conferences in London. No
mention
of Go or Rust, let alone D. Single language conferences are
tools for
retaining people within the language, ditto programs such as
Java
Champions.
New things grow at the fringes. See the work of Clayton
Christensen and his book the Innovator's Dilemma. A head-on
assault is ill-advised. People looking for salvation are easier
to talk to than those who don't see anything wrong with what
they're doing currently.
