Why many programmers don't like GC?

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On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 15:18:28 UTC, ddcovery wrote:
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> I understand perfectly the D community people that needs to 
> work without GC:  **it is not snobbish**:  it is a real need.  
> But not only a "need"... sometimes it is basically the way a 
> team wants to work:  explicit memory management vs GC.

D already supports manual memory management so that escape hatch 
was always there. My main criticism of D is the inability to 
freely exchange the GC algorithms as one type of GC might not be 
the best fit for everyone. The problem is of course that there is 
no differentiation between raw and fat pointers. With fat 
pointers, the community would have a better opportunities to 
experiment with different GC designs which would lead to a larger 
palette of GC algorithms.