Maybe D is right about GC after all !

Ola Fosheim Grøstad ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 22:49:24 UTC 2018


On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 22:37:54 UTC, Tony wrote:
> Why would they choose D for low level programming when they 
> knew before they chose it that it had a Garbage Collector?

Because it was/is a work-in-progress when they first got 
interested in it, and it was also advertised as a replacement for 
C and C++.  It was also assumed that one could expect significant 
improvements on the GC as the language matured. But of course, 
computers also get more and more memory to scan…


> who do. But maybe that is the case, the people who complain 
> about the Garbage Collector in this D forum are not using D.

Both. Some use D, but not the GC after initialization. Some 
wanted to use D (in production), but has put that on hold and are 
just waiting to see where it is heading. Some gave up on D for 
low level programming and turned to other languages.

So yes and no. ;-)



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