GCs in the news

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 09:57:09 UTC, currysoup wrote:
> 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?

In D you have a choice to use GC or not use it. You would want to 
not use if you have a severe performance problem, which may or 
may not exist.
There's no guarantee another language is a silver bullet and will 
magically solve all problems.