I have a plan.. I really DO

[Yuxuan Shui]

On Friday, 6 July 2018 at 21:15:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 08:16:36PM +0000, Ecstatic Coder via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...]
>> I've never said that this is something smart to do. I'm just 
>> saying that this code can perfectly be executed once in a C++ 
>> game frame without having to worry for a game freeze, because 
>> the string buffer deallocation is done once per frame too.
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>> While with many GC languages, you actually DON'T KNOW when all 
>> those unused string buffers will be claimed.
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> Of course, for someone looking for an excuse not to use D, they 
> will always find another reason why this is not sufficient. But 
> that only strengthens the point that the GC is just a 
> convenient excuse not to use D.

Not a good excuse to not fix GC, though.

> Solve that problem, and they will just move on to the next 
> excuse, because the GC is not the real reason; the real reason 
> is probably non-technical. Like good ole inertia: people are 
> lazy and set in their ways, and resist changing what they've 
> grown comfortable with. But actually admitting this would make 
> them look bad, so it is easier to find a convenient excuse like 
> the GC (or whatever else is different from the status quo).

If that's the case, then we are doom. We might just as well 
forget about getting popular, and instead spend time making the 
language better.

Like fixing the GC.

(Although I don't quite agree with you. Some people DO resist 
change, that's why some decades old languages are still popular. 
But look at the popularity of new languages like Go, and Rust, 
and the ever-change landscape of front-end development. There're 
tons of people who adapt certain technology just because it is 
new, why can't that happen to D?)

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