Remember the Vasa! by Bjarne Stroustrup

Joakim dlang at joakim.fea.st
Wed May 30 05:52:42 UTC 2018


On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 20:37:38 UTC, Tony wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 20:19:09 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>
>> I don't think it's difficult to do that yourself. There's no 
>> need to have a formal split. One example is that it's really 
>> nice to have the GC available for part of the program and 
>> avoid it for another part. @nogc gives you a guarantee. 
>> Different variants of the language are a special case of this 
>> that is equivalent to annotating the entire program to 
>> restrict behavior. That's rarely desirable.
>
> What would be an example of a type of application (or maybe 
> that should be "which type of domain" or "which type of 
> developer") where you would want part of it to do garbage 
> collection and the rest of it do not do garbage collection?

I believe that's how the Weka guys say they use D for their 
distributed, parallel filesystem, so you can add it to the list 
of applications others gave you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVpaNM-f69s


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