Go 1.5

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On Friday, 18 September 2015 at 20:46:18 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Friday, 18 September 2015 at 19:26:27 UTC, Rory wrote:
>> The new GC in Go 1.5 seems interesting. What they say about is 
>> certainly interesting.
>>
>> http://blog.golang.org/go15gc
>>
>> "To create a garbage collector for the next decade, we turned 
>> to an algorithm from decades ago. Go's new garbage collector 
>> is a concurrent, tri-color, mark-sweep collector, an idea 
>> first proposed by Dijkstra in 1978."
>
> I think this was talked about in general. If I remember 
> correctly the consensus was that
>
> 1. D's GC is really primitive (70's style stop the world) and 
> there's a lot of room for improvement
>
> 2. However, D has much more important problems currently than a 
> slow GC, e.g. std.allocator, a GC-less phobos, smaller .o files 
> for embedded systems, A better DMD with DDMD, etc.
>
> The reason Go has a better GC than D is that Go users have no 
> choice but to use the GC, while D users have a bunch more 
> options.

That's just bad excuses.