Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 22 February 2015 at 00:43:47 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 22 February 2015 at 05:20, JN via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=02202015a
>>
>> Interesting...
>>
>> Apple is dropping GC in favor of automatic reference counting. 
>> What are the
>> benefits of ARC over GC? Is it just about predictability of 
>> resource
>> freeing? Would ARC make sense in D?
>
> D's GC is terrible, and after 6 years hanging out in this 
> place, I
> have seen precisely zero development on the GC front.

There has been a flood of GC improvements in druntime from Martin 
Nowak and Rainer Schuetze over the last few months. Probably 
nothing that would satisfy your requirements, but it looks like 
some sizeable speedups nonetheless.