A few comments about D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.2482.1314125320.14074.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On 8/23/11, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>> I certainly hope so. That's desperately needed for certain domains.
>
> It would be super-useful for audio programming. If someone were to
> write a VST audio plugin for use in some music sequencer (Ableton
> Live, Steinberg Cubase, etc), they would have to guarantee there are
> *zero* pauses while the plugin is processing audio. It /might/ be ok
> to do any collections when the plugin is idling, and there's a way to
> check that in the VST SDK. But the biggest concern to me are implicit
> calls to GC due to e.g. array concatenation.
>
> I was planning on making a D wrapper library for the VST protocol, but
> until this is sorted out I think I'll just stay away from it for now.
> I don't want to have fingers pointed at me when someone writes a VST
> plug that ends up crashing some user's sequencer due to a GC
> collection (and more likely than not the companies who make sequencers
> would get fingers pointed at, which is bad).

Yea. Basically anything real-time. That and many low-memory situations 
(since it's a copying collector).