Why does D rely on a GC?

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 19.08.2014 20:22, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
> On 8/19/14, 10:11 AM, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 16:17:02 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> I won't look at it again for a different reason. They're the types that
>> say "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's
>> the problem?" but they're serious.
>>
>> 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.
>
> What is the main Rust forum? Thanks, Andrei

According to this post, StackOverflow

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-August/011019.html