Why is D's GC slower than GO's?

Imperatorn johan_forsberg_86 at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 30 13:33:21 UTC 2022


On Sunday, 30 October 2022 at 12:04:38 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 30 October 2022 at 11:04:42 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Right, Apple is putting a lot of effort into creating an 
> environment that makes it attractive to make iOS-only apps (or 
> iOS-first-apps). Making more iOS/macOS software use only Swift 
> is obviously something that fits their strategies and we can 
> expect more of that. They also have an obvious long term 
> interest in growing the pool of loyal Swift-only programmers. 
> (Just like Microsoft has an interest in making sure that there 
> is a large pool of C#-only programmers.)
>
> There has been talks by the original author about making Swift 
> a proper system level language (that could compete with C) some 
> years ago, but not sure if that is still a goal. I don't expect 
> it anytime soon, though.

I still think D as a language is superior. But a lot of the 
tooling around it needs some work.

But imo it's worth fixing that because D could soon be popular 
again.


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