Future of memory management in D

Imperatorn johan_forsberg_86 at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 16 18:36:01 UTC 2021


On Tuesday, 16 November 2021 at 18:25:53 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 06:17:29PM +0000, Rumbu via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> In this new light, even I am not bothered by, I must admit 
>> that the garbage collector became something that doesn't fit 
>> in.
>> 
>> Now, without a gc, more than half of the language risks to 
>> become unusable and that's why I ask myself how do you see the 
>> future of the memory management in D?
> [...]
>
> You can take the GC from me over my cold dead body.
>
>
> T

😂

I'm not that dramatic. But research suggests GC is actually a 
good invention. For me the thing about D is its plasticity. That 
you can choose.

But, yes, to be able to choose, the stdlib must not rely on gc as 
much.

But I really want the GC there if I need it.


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