Go 1.9

[Bienlein via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 23 June 2017 at 08:57:04 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Friday, 23 June 2017 at 06:41:26 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
>>> Java, Kotlin, C# are still Jit compiled languages, with the 
>>> memory footprint to prove it :)
>>
>> The memory footprint doesn't matter. Those times are OVER :-).
>
> People said that 30 years ago too... It is still an issue, 
> though. Not as much as it was, but still relevant.
>
> Programmers seem to be able to suck up whatever RAM is 
> available on the low-end by adding frameworks, bloated 
> libraries and runtimes, or just bugs…

I have not done any manual memory management at work for the last 
25 years. Did some C++ programming at college and a bit at home 
where I had to take care of memory myself. That was it. Till I 
retire in 20 years I will also not have been doing any manual 
memory management. That kind of stuff only survives in very 
special areas where 0.1% of all software developers work.

That being said let me repeat that D needs a decent GC for being 
able to create any traction, because those 99.9% of the share are 
the far bigger market.