Why does D rely on a GC?

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On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 15:16:31 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> Also, the list seems way too big. It's ok from a purist point 
> of view, to make the compiler nice and clean. But that's not a 
> good way to make a fast compiler.

This is why I won't bother investing any time in it for a few 
more years at least. It may have really cool language features, 
big development team and famous names behind it but in terms of 
compiler maturity it is still a very long road to go until it 
gets even to DMD capabilities.