Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers

[Carl Sturtivant]

On Thursday, 4 April 2024 at 15:54:30 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> What I mean is that a lot of memory I use is allocated either 
> by C libraries or by R's garbage collector. SafeRefCounted 
> takes care of all the details for me so I don't have to think 
> about it.

A great example of the strength of D. Eliminating the GC as the 
default is *premature optimization*. When you need to do 
something else, you can. Tune up your use of the GC or not use it.