On 02/23/2012 11:57 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
I still cannot fathom how the Scala guys thought using the JVM was a good idea.
It gave them a good garbage collector (an area that has held D's performance back for years), a large library via Java compatibility, and a population of users to appeal to. Scala probably wouldn't have succeeded if it was just another object-oriented language without ties to the JVM.
