The D Programming Language Vision Document

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On Monday, 4 July 2022 at 05:30:10 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On Sunday, 3 July 2022 at 08:46:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> You can find the final draft of the high-level goals for the D 
>> programming language at the following link:
>>
>> https://github.com/dlang/vision-document
>
> Under 'Memory safety':
>
>> Allow the continued use of garbage collection as the default 
>> memory management strategy without impact. The GC is one of 
>> D's strengths, and we should not "throw the baby out with the 
>> bath water".
>
> Under 'Phobos and DRuntime':
>
>> @nogc as much as possible.
>
> Aren't these the polar opposites of each other? The GC is one 
> of D's strengths, yet we should avoid it as much as possible in 
> the standard library.
>
> Then it's not part of D's strengths.

GC is one of D's strength because it is optional, not making core 
APIs bing-your-own-memory-allocation-strategy through nogc or 
allocators, is making it no longer optional, which is no longer a 
strength imo

You don't want GC when you do microcontroller development, so as 
a result core APIs (most of them) becomes useless, moving forward 
that should make the story better for everyone

Which becomes a strength again!