Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers

[Paulo Pinto]

On Saturday, 6 April 2024 at 11:04:29 UTC, Ogi wrote:
> On Monday, 1 April 2024 at 20:45:25 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> Personally, I blame the OS/Game crowd for single-handedly 
>> keeping D out of the web service space for the past *decade* 
>> because, instead of improving the GC to the point that 
>> long-running processes are possible, we've built a mountain of 
>> (mis)features designed to assuage their demands.
>
> If you want to write web things, the are many other program 
> languages with established frameworks and tools, huge 
> communities and corporate support. Perhaps it’s you who should 
> consider a different language.

Indeed, I would rather choose Java, Go, Oberon and C# for 
embedded development, as there is already several companies 
selling hardware and compiler toolchains, with companies paying 
real money for them.

Something that D has been missing out, by being stuck onto this 
kind of discussions.