A Perspective on D from game industry

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On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 15:31:40 UTC, Brian Rogoff wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 11:28:12 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> http://c0de517e.blogspot.ca/2014/06/where-is-my-c-replacement.html?m=1
>>
>> The arguments against D are pretty weak if I'm honest, but I 
>> think it's important we understand what people think of D. I 
>> can confirm this sentiment is fairly common in the industry.
>
> Notice that in his post and the comments, a recurring 
> (negative) issue is garbage collection. This is pretty common 
> with mentions of D on reddit too, always a few posters 
> mentioning D's GC as a negative. So many of those comments 
> could be made obsolete by a decent precise garbage collector, 
> and perhaps a compiler switch like the 'noruntime' one that 
> Walter proposed a few months ago.
>
> On the plus side, D is mentioned prominently and in the 
> comparison with C++ template programming D really shines.

Another thing I have found funny is that how he both mentions GC 
as an issue an favors Go (with mandatory GC) over Rust 
(dismissing it memory model as irrelevant).

This post really reads more like a casual rant than 
well-established opinion.