New competitor to D

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On Wednesday, 20 July 2022 at 07:23:04 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> We have multiple GC's

Do we _really_ have multiple GCs though? How do you we use them, 
what are the advantages / disadvantages of each one?

> there is also std.experimental.allocator

Which is useless until Phobos data types are refactored to use 
that as a parameter.

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If you ask me, D is better than most languages out there and it 
should be the default way of migrating out of C++. But that's not 
gonna happen until at least multiple of the following happens:

- The runtime gets leaner and more configurable, gotta have that 
wasm support.
- Modern features such as sum types & pattern matching, nullables 
& tuples in the language (not as libraries).
- Allocators passed into functions (+ a "garbage collecting 
allocator" like we have now)

Right now D is trying to compete with Java / Go and C++ / Rust 
and failing at both. Just choose to compete with the lower level 
ones and then higher-level stuff can be added later.