Where will D sit in the web service space?

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On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 18:32:11 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> Today, one wouldn't want to build a business around depending 
> on Andrei's allocator.

Not really sure what you are referring to.

> So in which cases could one not use the allocator to manage 
> memory comfortably enough?

Allocators generally don't manage memory, they structure 
allocation patterns and may (or may not) provide initialization 
optimizations, release information and release optimizations.

To manage memory you need an ownership model:

- GC is the most comfortable way to handle ownership.

- Regular manual memory management is error prone, and ownership 
is ad hoc and informal.

- Strict linear typing is a more tedious alternative that 
requires you to structure things in a particular way (makes 
simple things like creating a doubly linked list difficult).

- Reference counting has performance overhead and special care 
has to be taken to avoid cycles.