Go, D, and the GC

[Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d]

Am Sun, 04 Oct 2015 23:28:47 +0000
schrieb Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>:

> On Sunday, 4 October 2015 at 21:41:00 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> > If D has no intentions of aiding the GC, then the GC should 
> > just be dropped because it's basically just slapping Boehm on 
> > C++ right now.
> 
> I don't understand this attitude at all (and you're not the only 
> one to voice it lately). D has a ton to offer and so little of it 
> has anything to do with the GC. The delegate/lambda/closure 
> situation is generally saner thanks to the GC (at least as far as 
> safety goes), and arrays have some fantastic features thanks to 
> the GC, but D has _way_ more to offer than that, and most of it 
> has nothing to do with the GC. D's templates alone blow C++ 
> totally out of the water. C++ is a great language, and I love it. 
> But at this point, I only use it when I have to. D is just _so_ 
> much more pleasant to program in that I have no interest in 
> programming in C++ anymore. It's been years since I've done any 
> kind of pet project in C++.
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis

It was probably bad wording. I understood it as D's GC works
on a similar basis as Boehm now - conservative, stop the
world mark & sweep. The reason in both being the nature of the
host language. In fact the German Wikipedia says that Boehm GC
was ported with minimal changes to druntime.

-- 
Marco