Beeflang garbage seeker/collector

[bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 20 February 2024 at 18:15:45 UTC, Marconi wrote:

> Good programmers should have the most control of whats going on 
> in their software.

You're viewing this entirely from the perspective of the types of 
programs you write. Someone writing programs in Javascript or 
Ruby is likely to not think about these things, nor have any 
reason to do so. They're becoming less important for the majority 
of programmers every year. I have a work machine with 128 GB of 
RAM. The GC doesn't usually even run. Why should I waste any time 
on memory management when it's never an issue?

D is very much a language for the things you do with a scripting 
language. That may actually be its best selling point, since 
you're free to let your program can grow to tens of thousands of 
lines and you never have to worry about performance.

> Garbage seeker helps you to create a great software, improve 
> your skills, without force you to accept one solution of memory 
> management.

Having to think about memory management in any way forces a 
solution on everyone. There are obviously cases in which the 
programmer does need to think about memory management, but that's 
not an argument to distract everyone else from the core problem 
they're trying to solve.

Complete avoidance of the GC is a disco-era idea that is no more 
relevant in 2024 than punch cards.