[OT] Re: Why don't you advertise more your language on Quora etc ?

[Rico Decho via Digitalmars-d]

> It's actually rather rare to *need* to avoid the GC -- only 
> niche applications need that, like if you're writing a game 
> engine that has to avoid stop-the-world pauses (which can be 
> easily worked around, btw), or real-time medical applications 
> where if it stops for 10ms somebody dies. 90% of real world 
> programs out there work just fine with the GC.

Actually it's my case. I'd LOVE to use D for game development for 
instance, but I won't take the risk of having the GC pause the 
game when I don't want to, even for just an unknown amount of 
milliseconds, and even if I know that anyway I'll try to limit 
dynamic allocations by using caches etc.

Of course, for everything else (scripts, tools, servers, etc), 
now I use D and I'm glad with it. Because for that same scripts 
and applications, I could have used any other garbage collected 
language (JavaScript/, C#, etc), so no problem for that.

And that's my point.

D is probably the best alternative to C++, Java, C# and Node.js. 
Better than Rust too.

But for D to succeed as a viable alternative to C++ where it's 
mandatory to use it, it must have a minimalistic version of 
Phobos that makes it easy and natural to use D with manual memory 
management.

Maybe it's already the case, but then I suggest that you should 
promote it louder, so that people don't even feel the need to try 
Rust for instance.