Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/6/16 6:38 AM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 04:17:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> Though, I wish D would just own its decision instead of bowing to
>> Reddit pressure. GC is a proven success in the real world with a long
>> and impressive track record. Yes, there are times when you need to
>> optimize your code, but even then you aren't really worse off with it
>> than without it.
>
> While I understand that some people can't afford a GC, this has confused
> me as well.
>
> I never understood the large amount of people on /r/programming
> complaining about the GC when the vast majority of software is written
> in one of the following languages: C#, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript.

These are only a part of our competition. -- Andrei