You don't like GC? Do you?

[Stanislav Blinov]

On Friday, 12 October 2018 at 19:55:02 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:

> Freeing your mind and the codebase of having to deal with 
> memory leaves it in an easier place to deal with the less 
> common higher impact leaks: file descriptors, sockets, database 
> handles ect. (this is like chopping down the forest so you can 
> see the trees you care about ;) ).

That's done first and foremost by stripping out unnecessary 
allocations, not by writing "new" every other line and closing 
your eyes.

I mean come on, it's 2018. We're writing code for multi-core and 
multi-processor systems with complex memory interaction. 
Precisely where in memory your data is, how it got there and how 
it's laid out should be bread and butter of any D programmer. 
It's true that it isn't critical for one-off scripts, but so is 
deallocation.

Saying stuff like "do more with GC" is just outright harmful. 
Kids are reading, for crying out loud.