D is crap

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 11:10:22 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 08:06:54 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 07:52:57 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
>> wrote:
>>> removed the GC
>> ...
>>> replaced it with automatic reference counting.
>>
>> you *do* know that refcounting *is* GC, do you? ;-)
>
> And that's a very important point, because the choice of RC vs 
> other types of GC ignores the fact that they're both GC, and 
> old school programmers didn't want anything to do with a 
> "feature" that would slow down their code. RC would have been 
> an even worse choice when D started because it is [claimed to 
> be] slower than other types of GC. It's been a long time now, 
> but I don't recall many arguments against Java's GC because of 
> pauses. The objection was always that it would make the code 
> run more slowly.

I remember reading an article by Apple about their GC in 
Objective-C and they said that it was a generational GC and that 
some objects would not be collected at all (if too old), if I 
remember correctly. Apparently it wasn't good enough, but that's 
about 7 years ago, so my memory might have been freed of some 
details :-)