Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 08:18:20 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 05:28 +0000, ketmar via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 05:13:11 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
>> > You can still unregister your critical thread from GC.
>> 
>> exactly. that's what i did in my sound engine, and it works 
>> like a charm: i can enjoy hiccup-less ogg replaying on the 
>> background while the main code enjoys GC.
>
> This should be marketed as a major feature of D: the language 
> with a GC for those situations where you want it, and manual 
> memory management for those cases where you do not want a GC.

Having the GC for the UI is very pleasant, while @nogc 
time-critical code won't use it.

It think the problem is that the message then become more 
complicated.
GC is easily victim of the "holier-than-thou" fallacy, because 
evidently less GC is supposed to translate into faster programs. 
Er... right?