Future of D

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Tue Dec 15 09:11:26 UTC 2020


On Tuesday, 15 December 2020 at 08:13:31 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 December 2020 at 20:35:15 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 07:33:30PM +0000, Max Haughton via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>>> I really think properly killing the GC would give us a big 
>>> boost in fresh blood to the community. It would still be 
>>> there, but it's a huge turn off to new users.
>>
>> Honestly, IMNSHO the anti-GC crowd is only a vocal minority.  
>> For most normal applications the GC is actually a big plus.
>
>
> D's biggest problem are those trying to turn it into C++.

With the irony that most prominent C++ game engines, and OS 
component frameworks, do use some form of automatic memory 
management.


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