D is crap

Chris via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jul 11 08:05:30 PDT 2016


On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 14:03:36 UTC, Infiltrator wrote:
> On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 13:24:14 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> ...
>> To have GC was definitely a good decision. What was not so
>> good was that it was not optional with a simple on/off switch.
>> ...
>
> I know that I'm missing something here, but what's wrong with 
> the functions provided in core.memory?  Specifically, 
> GC.disable()?

I was thinking of a compiler switch (as they did in Objective-C), 
and had D been designed with `-nogc` in mind from the start, 
Phobos would be GC free too. No GC is still a bit rough around 
the edges.


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