How usable is the D language without a garbage collector?

[rikki cattermole]

On 15/07/2022 9:40 PM, LinguisticMystic wrote:
> On Friday, 15 July 2022 at 09:31:14 UTC, max haughton wrote:
> 
>> What kind of software do you want to write
> 
> Video games, number crunching. Stuff C++ is usually used for.

Neither of which D's GC is the enemy of.

The GC is a library that can only be triggered to stop the world, but is 
not guaranteed to stop the world on, during a from GC memory allocation.

You are quite free to use malloc/free and not tell the runtime about a 
thread iff you need to.

You can also disable scanning when a pause would not be desirable.

D has been used in both scenarios with the GC turned on.

https://dlang.org/blog/the-gc-series/