Why do you continue to use D?

Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 00:55:44 UTC 2020


On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 4:15 AM 12345swordy via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Monday, 8 June 2020 at 06:51:59 UTC, Manu wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 11:21 PM H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d <
> > digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 01:11:46PM +0000, matheus via
> >> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >> > [...]
> >>
> >> Wasn't Manu one of the people who pushed for @nogc and
> >> eventually got it in?
> >>
> >
> > Yes, @nogc is totally my meddling, and it's a very valuable
> > tool! If only we could get a robust ARC solution over the
> > line... ;)
> >
> > Outside the realtime code though, GC can be useful. It's not
> > bad the language has GC, but it would be nice if @nogc existed
> > much earlier so there was a better culture of writing libraries
> > to support it. Most libraries I've written recently work with
> > or without GC.
>
> To bad that @nogc is useless when it comes to manual memory
> management when it comes to classes as it doesn't work well at
> all with the class deconstructor.
>
> -Alex
>

 What do you mean?
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