On 24-02-2012 05:06, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
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.
They could have used the CLI. Both MS.NET and Mono have good garbage
collectors, and Mono in particular has SIMD intrinsics, an LLVM back
end, etc.
I've heard a lot of people complain that Scala doesn't run on .NET.
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- Alex
