Why does D rely on a GC?

[Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/18/14, 9:05 PM, bearophile wrote:
> 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)

Not all hope is lost, though:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/16624

With such bugs, one can expect a lot of performance improvements in the 
future :-)