Why I Like D

[Arjan]

On Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 16:14:54 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 1/12/22 10:41 AM, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 15:25:37 UTC, H. S. Teoh 
>> wrote:
>>>     However it turns out that unless you are writing a 
>>> computer
>>>     game, a high frequency trading system, a web server
>> 
>> Most computer games and web servers use GC too.
>> 
>> idk about hf trading.

I know for sure that one was written in JAVA, using Azul C4 and 
other tech to maximize performance...


> Yeah, I had trouble agreeing with that statement too.

Just wait for Paulo Pinto to join the conversation, he will 
happily refer a lot of tech and products using GC which are high 
performant and very successful ;-)

>
> I wonder if there is just so much fear of the GC vs people who 
> actually tried to use the GC and it failed to suit their needs. 
> I've never been afraid of the GC in my projects, and it hasn't 
> hurt me at all.

I think it stems from experience from long ago when JAVA was HOT 
and sold as the solution of all world problems, but failed to 
meet expectations and was dismissed because they found is was the 
GC what made it fail..

A lot of engineers just repeat the opinion of some guru they 
admire without fact checking.

Although I've seen various serious performance issues with JAVA 
and python software, only once it was related to the GC..