The D standard library is built on GC, is that a negative or positive?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 12/13/22 2:11 AM, thebluepandabear wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was speaking to one of my friends on D language and he spoke about how 
> he doesn't like D language due to the fact that its standard library is 
> built on top of GC (garbage collection).
> 
> He said that if he doesn't want to implement GC he misses out on the 
> standard library, which for him is a big disadvantage.
> 
> Does this claim have merit? I am not far enough into learning D, so I 
> haven't touched GC stuff yet, but I am curious what the D community has 
> to say about this issue.
> 
> 

Most pieces do not use the GC except to throw exceptions. This one thing 
is preventing much of the standard library from being @nogc.

I'm not sure what the priority of DIP1008 implementation is, but if we 
want to severely lessen the reliance on the GC, this would be a huge 
step in that direction.

-Steve