Life in the Fast Lane (@nogc blog post)

[Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 17 June 2017 at 13:05:50 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>
> This is why I consider @nogc to be an *extremely* niche feature 
> and generally harmful. It makes things look a lot harder than 
> it really is - people confuse `@nogc` with "no gc". Instead, I 
> suggest just minding the list and using runtime profiling and 
> debugging to ensure your needs are met in actual practice.
>

As a counterpoint: It's true that it's a bit niche, but when you 
have "no gc" then @nogc really helps with peace of mind (only one 
allocation and you may crash).