Why does D rely on a GC?

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d]

Ary Borenszweig:

> It's very smart, yes. But it takes half an hour to compile the 
> compiler itself.

I think this is mostly a back-end issue. How much time does it 
take to compile ldc2? Can't they create a Rust with dmc back-end? 
:o)


> And you have to put all those unwrap and types everywhere, I 
> don't think it's fun or productive that way.

I've never written Rust programs longer than twenty lines, so I 
don't know. But I think Rust code is acceptable to write, I have 
seen code written in far worse situations (think about a programs 
one million lines of code long of MUMPS).

Apparently the main Rust designer is willing to accept anything 
to obtain memory safety of Rust in parallel code. And the 
language is becoming simpler to use and less noisy.

Bye,
bearophile