This is going around Reddit at the moment:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA

they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?

On Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 17:39:21 UTC, JN wrote:
> This is going around Reddit at the moment:
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA
>
> they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?

D isn't in the official code base yet, so I suspect that is one big item.

D likely exercises more code than Go, but can't say for sure.

On 2013-11-10 18:39, JN wrote:
> This is going around Reddit at the moment:
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA
>
> they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?

D needs to be officially included in GCC to begin with.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Am 10.11.2013 18:39, schrieb JN:
> This is going around Reddit at the moment:
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA
>
> they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?

Because GCC developers are part of the Go team and Ada Core actively supports Ada development in GCC. Both are integrated into GCC source tree.

D is still not integrated into GCC source tree.

--
Paulo

On 10 November 2013 17:39, JN <666total@wp.pl> wrote:

> This is going around Reddit at the moment:
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA
>
> they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?
>

Barring what has already been said, I would add that D is not suitable to replace Java in the default languages to build for most of the same reasons that Ian (maintainer of Go) said about his front-end not being suitable.

-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';

Am 10.11.2013 23:03, schrieb Iain Buclaw:
> On 10 November 2013 17:39, JN <666total@wp.pl <mailto:666total@wp.pl>>
> wrote:
>
>     This is going around Reddit at the moment:
>
>     http://www.phoronix.com/scan.__php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA
>     <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA>
>
>     they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?
>
>
> Barring what has already been said, I would add that D is not suitable
> to replace Java in the default languages to build for most of the same
> reasons that Ian (maintainer of Go) said about his front-end not being
> suitable.
>
> --
> Iain Buclaw
>
> *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';

From the discussion thread it seems Ada will be the winner.

--
Paulo

And, of course, D doesn't work on ARM which is probably the single biggest target for GCC.