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[bachmeier]

On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 14:54:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> Rather than shying away from GC, we shold be promoting it. 
> @nogc is really for special niches, that really shouldn't be a 
> huge concern for "normal" code.  (But good luck saying this to 
> the C/C++ knee-jerk anti-GC crowd.)

For years I avoided D because it was marketed as an alternative 
implementation of C++ and I didn't want C++. Now apparently the 
only marketing of D is as an alternative Rust, and unlike C++, 
Rust is not horrible. That's not a battle D is going to win.

Programming languages are adopted to get work done. Starting a 
thread on HN where D is competing against Rust while Rust is 
setting the rules is not a substitute for showing people that 
they can do stuff in D.