D is crap

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 22:25:37 UTC, Chris wrote:
> after Java. And D was invented when GC was expected by many 
> people.

The GC was by far the most criticised feature of D...


> GC was a big selling point. Every Java book went on about how

Err... no, the big selling point that gave Java traction was 
portability and Java being marketed as designed for the internet 
and web. GC languages were already available and in use, but the 
JVM/.NET made it difficult for commercial development platforms. 
Portability and Microsoft's dominance was a big issue back then.


> blah ... Apple even added GC to Objective-C to appease the GC 
> crowd.

Apple removed the GC rather quickly for the same reasons that 
makes GC a bad choice for D. And replaced it with automatic 
reference counting.