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

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 11:06 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 06:45:55PM +0000, Rico Decho via Digitalmars-
> d wrote:
> [...]
> > But I don't think that D's GC is fine for people who care about it.
> > 
> > If it is, why are people on this forum giving advices on how to
> > disable and/or avoid it for soft real-time applications where a GC
> > freeze can't be tolerated.
> > 
> > D's GC isn't a crap at all, but better designs and implementations
> > exist, and Nim's GC is one of them.
> > 
> > We can either learn from it, or ignore it... But the second
> > solution
> > won't make D more appropriate for soft real-time scenarios...
> 
> What the D GC needs is somebody willing to sit down and actually
> spend
> the time to improve/rewrite the code.  Over the years there has been
> an
> endless stream of fancy ideas, feature requests, and wishlists for
> the
> GC, but without anybody actually doing the work, nothing will
> actually
> happen.  We are all very well aware of the current GC's limitations
> and
> flaws for years now, and there has been some amount of improvements
> going into it over the years.  But again, talking about it won't
> magically make it better.  *Somebody* has to write the code, after
> all.
> 
> If anyone is interested to help, take a look at:
> 
> 	https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1603

As mentioned previously I can schedule taking a look at this, but only
from 2017-06-30T17:01+01:00 onwards.

> and review the code, give some feedback, run the benchmarks yourself,
> etc., to prod this PR along.
> 
> If you have other ideas for improving the GC (e.g., adapting ideas
> from
> Nim's GC), submitting PRs to that effect would be much more effective
> than merely talking about it.
> 
> 
> T
> 
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