cross post hn: (Rust) _ _ without GC

[Vic via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 00:49:57 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 23:21:17 UTC, Vic wrote:
>> I am not saying no GC; I am saying:
>> a) something needs to be moved out of core.
>
> And many don't agree.
>
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Dear Anonymous,

IMO D needs to be more stable, the alternative is more and more 
features and less and less commercial users and followed by less 
maintainers that don't want a dead project to work on. D 
'marketing' brings people in, who then leave.
So I proposed: Do like GO does w/ Exceptions ( I can send link 
again if need)

*What* would be another way to get stability that is not fantasy?

I consider the surface area of features vs available volunteer 
maintainers at hand. If you are not sold, look at CLR and JRE 
features relative to D features. Now look at the size of their 
maintenance teams as relative FTE.

Does that look as sustainable?

Hence a prediction: major things will be moved out of core to 3rd 
party plugins to slim down the lang, because now it's more than a 
lang: it is a platform.

Vic