Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Joakim]

On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 10:54:12 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 09:54:05 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> "C, Python, Go, and the Generalized Greenspun Law"
>>
>> http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7804
>
> I think D and the GC are highly appropriate for developing high 
> performance application software. That's where D really shines. 
> It's a shame that Qt is such a nightmare to use in anything 
> that isn't C++. GTK is easy enough to use at least. What's 
> funny is that both frameworks implement their own memory 
> management schemes. That points to a need for automatic memory 
> management.

Why only application software?  The point of that blog post is 
that whole swathes of system programming should be done with 
mostly GC, leaving only OS kernels, some real-time apps, and the 
highly-constrained embedded space to the betterC mode.