GCs in the news

[John via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 09:57:09 UTC, currysoup wrote:
> It's not about "acceptance", it's about the reality that a GC 
> is not a universal solution to memory management.
>
> Just from watching a few of the DConf 2014 talks, if you want 
> performance you avoid the GC at all costs (even if that means 
> allocating into huge predefined buffers). Once you're going to 
> these lengths to avoid garbage collection it begs the question, 
> why are you even using this language? Within this community the 
> question is rhetorical but to outsiders I feel it's a major 
> concern.


If D came without GC, it would have replaced C++ a long time ago!