D is crap

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 12:46:03 UTC, Chris wrote:
> As for GC, it's hard to tell. When D was actually (not 
> hypothetically) created, GC was _the_ big thing. Java had just 
> taken off, people were pissed off with C/C++, programming and 
> coding was becoming more and more common.

Errr... Garbage collection was common since the 60s. One problem 
with GC in the late 80s and early 90s is that it requires twice 
as much memory and memory was scarce so reference counting was/is 
the better option. You could make the same argument about 
templates, memory...

I also don't recall anyone being in awe of Java having GC. The 
big selling point was portability and the very hyped up idea that 
Java would run well in the browser, which did not materialize. 
Another selling point was that it wasn't Microsoft...