TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

[rsw0x via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 18:02:39 UTC, Suliman wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 17:10:51 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 15:20:53 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> Walter seems against ARC anyway.
>>
>> Andrei does not seem to be, however.
>> D's GC is a failure, the amount of effort needed/given to work 
>> around it should be proof enough of this.
>
> There is no problem, to write on C if you do not need GC.

Then why use D? Most of the standard library and large portion of 
language features are locked out if you opt-out of the GC.
If it half-asses two things, then there's no reason to use it.