"H. S. Teoh" <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message news:mailman.1417.1333721195.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 12:34:09PM +0400, Denis Shelomovskij wrote: >> And adobe Flash of course should also die. > > +1. It should have died a DECADE ago. Except that certain interests kept > its decaying worm-infested corpse animating even till today. >
Funny, that's also how I feel about C++. As I've been saying for awhile, a decade of near-zero interest in anything but VM languages is what kept it on life support. Fortunately, D's quickly becoming the successor that's always been needed so C++ will finally be able to RIP. > >> Damn, they have created slow-by-design thing (e.g. see extremely slow >> YouTube (and other Flash based video players) video rendering - now >> you really need a modern PC just to watch a video) and now want to >> make it faster. With graphical acceleration. It results in BSOD-s >> (yes, I'm on Windows) using web browsers. Current systems was too >> stable. Users was too slack. Hello unstable times! > [...] > > Why write stable software when it's much easier to write unstable > software and ship on time? After all, marketing is what really matters > in the end... </sarcasm> > I can personally vouch for the fact that there is *nothing* productive about writing software in Flash. C++ is more productive.