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by pjmlp 2176 days ago
Value types are coming, EA are available and virtual by default has long stopped being a problem thanks to StrongTalk optimization regarding de-virtualization across shared libraries and call caches.

That "better performance" isn't reflecting in market share.
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entha_saava 2176 days ago
Performance and market share are different things.
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pjmlp 2175 days ago
Not when adoption is at play.
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smabie 2175 days ago
What point are you trying to make?
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pjmlp 2175 days ago
That the beauty of "OCaml, Haskell, SML with MLTon, Nim, D, C" and lack effectiveness of JIT compilers have done very little for them to take market share from Java in any significant way.

In case of C, on the contrary it lost to Java the majority of the roles it owned during 90's enterprise distributed computing applications.

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