[Semi-OT] I don't want to leave this language!

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 7 December 2016 at 02:24:56 UTC, bpr wrote:
> If I really *want* to use a GC, say I'm writing a server and I 
> believe that a well tuned GC will allow my server to stay alive 
> much longer with less fragmentation, I'll probably skip D and 
> pick Go or maybe (hmmm...) even Java because their GCs have had 
> a lot of engineering effort.
>

Writing a server is quite narrow compared to the "programmers who 
are comfortable working in a GC-ed language" that I was 
responding to.

>> I wonder what percentage of Ruby programmers have thought 
>> about garbage collection ever.
>
> Why would a Ruby or Python programmer unconcerned with 
> performance want to switch to D? I'm sure there are some who 
> would, but I'd imagine they're rare.

Maybe some prefer D as a language? The same argument could be 
used against any language. Performance is far from the only 
reason to use D.