Why I Like D

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 06:37:47PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> "Why I like D" is on the front page of HackerNews at the moment at number 11.
> 
> https://news.ycombinator.com/news

Favorite quote:

	Some people may not consider the GC a feature, I certainly did
	not at the beginning. I came from a hard-core game developer
	mindset where you need to know the exact timing for every
	operation in your critical path. I lived by quotes like: “the
	programmer knows better how to manage memory” and “you cannot
	have unexpected pauses for GC collection”.

	However it turns out that unless you are writing a computer
	game, a high frequency trading system, a web server, or anything
	that really cares about sub-second latency, chances are that a
	garbage collector is your best friend. It will remove the burden
	of having to think about memory management at all and at the
	same time guarantee that you won’t have any memory leaks in your
	code.

*Flamesuit on.*


T

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