cross post hn: (Rust) _ _ without GC

[Elvis Zhou via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 03:32:12 UTC, Vic wrote:
> 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.
>>
> <snip>
>
> 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

+1