Why many programmers don't like GC?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 16:21:43 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 15:36:37 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
> The library smart pointers would make it difficult to interact 
> with existing D GC code though.

Yes. So it would be better to do it automatically in the compiler 
for designated GC objects.

ARC is also a good alternative.

Probably less work to get a high quality ARC implementation, than 
a high quality GC implementation.