On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:22:16 -0500, Jason House wrote: > Jesse Phillips Wrote: > >> On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:34:51 -0500, bearophile wrote: >> >> > A recently written report from a firm that has switched back from >> > Scala to Java: >> > >> > https://raw.github.com/ >> gist/1406238/72ade1a89004a9a7d705b00cfd14b90b2b6a26bd/gistfile1.txt > I looked at the issues much differently. I read it hours ago, but here > are what I remember as big issues: * immature / incomplete libraries > * immature toolchain > * poor performance with common patterns * not widely adopted / hard to > teach > > I think D shares all of these problems to differing degrees.
There's a good deal of activity on the D library front, but the toolchain situation seems to be stuck. The big deals as I see them, for ages, have been the flaky debugging and inability to generate shared libraries in Linux, and the COFF/OMF divide in Windows. Steve