Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

Dsby via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 7 02:20:47 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 08:05:58 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 16:56 +0000, Wyatt via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> So instead of debating this endlessly, I think this is about 
> the tenth time this has come up in the last two years, why 
> doesn't a group of people who know about GC algorithms get 
> together and write a new one?
>
> Java has had a large number of GCs over the years: new 
> knowledge, new algorithms, new implementation lead to better 
> performance.
>
> Go has had at least three GCs as new knowledge, new algorithms, 
> new implementation lead to better performance.
>
> D has had lots of discussion on email lists but no-one has 
> followed this up with actually doing something that resulted in 
> a change.

support.
Why not write a new GC to replace the simple and old GC.


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