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[Paulo Pinto]

On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 16:39:16 UTC, Avrina wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 14:43:22 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 13:11:20 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 13:00:35 UTC, JN wrote:
>>>> There is always someone saying that you don't have to use GC 
>>>> in D
>>>
>>> Yeah, this is true and for special cases we can show users 
>>> how it is done, but I wish we'd just focus on actually 
>>> selling GC instead of hiding from it.
>>>
>>> GC is a proven winner in real world industry programming and 
>>> is one of D's strengths. Why we constantly shoot ourselves in 
>>> the foot by conceding this ground to internet trolls is 
>>> beyond me.
>>
>> Indeed, even hard core C++ devs that happen to work with 
>> Unreal, UWP/COM or DriverKit have to make peace with GC 
>> technologies (either tracing or refcounted).
>
> I've heard heard the Unreal argument before. That's not the 
> same thing as a GC in a programming language. You wouldn't be 
> able to build the GC built in Unreal in a GC only language. You 
> are using it as an example to use the GC but in reality it 
> demonstrates the need for programming languages that doesn't 
> force you to use one.

Sure it is, Blueprints and Unreal C++ (as C++ dialect used in 
Unreal) have GC support.

And apparently everyone keeps forgetting that C++11 has gotten a 
GC API, while a couple of dialects like C++/CLI and C++/CX also 
have GC extensions.