Why does D rely on a GC?

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 19.08.2014 19:18, schrieb ponce:
> On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 17:11:21 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> My last interaction with Rust was when I commented that adoption would
>> be hurt if they require an understanding of the memory model just to
>> get started, to which they responded more or less that it's not a big
>> deal. At that point I concluded the language was lost. I can only
>> imagine what it will look like in five years.
>
> Same here. Want to solve the C++ problem, solve compilation speed first.
> I can't see programmers suddenly willing to manage lifetimes
> explicitely, also I can see the Rust syntax create an endless stream of
> complaints.
>

I like the ML syntax, the problem is the extra Perl like syntax for 
lifetimes and such.

The way things are, Swift is probably going to get more developers than 
Rust.

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Paulo