D is our last hope

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On Thursday, 7 December 2023 at 19:21:10 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
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> Unreal is also full of OOP, and Unreal C++ alongside Blueprints 
> uses a GC.
>
> Their business is doing quite well.

Computer games and GC is really a good match if you have room for 
certain performance hit (regardless of type of GC). Many computer 
games have a lot of objects, these objects also often have some 
kind of relationship to each other. The lifetime and 
relationships are usually totally unpredictable. If the 
developers can do away with lifetime tracking and all associated 
bugs that's a big win, especially when investors today seem to 
have unrealistic deadlines. There are usually enough bugs as it 
is anyway.

GC in computer games today is probably standard I would presume. 
GC in the D language is a great thing and I don't want it to go 
away, just make it better.