Why I Like D

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 13 January 2022 at 15:44:33 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 January 2022 at 10:21:12 UTC, Stanislav Blinov 
> wrote:
>> TLDR: it's pointless to lament on irrelevant trivia. Time it! 
>> Any counter-arguments from either side are pointless without 
>> that.
>
> "Time it" isn't really useful for someone starting on a 
> project, as it is too late when you have something worth 
> measuring. The reason for this is that it gets worse and worse 
> as your application grows. Then you end up either giving up on 
> the project or going through a very expensive and bug prone 
> rewrite. There is no trivial upgrade path for code relying on 
> the D GC.
>
> And quite frankly, 4 ms is not a realistic worse case scenario 
> for the D GC. You have to wait for all threads to stop on the 
> worst possible OS/old-budget-hardware/program state 
> configuration.
>
> It is better to start with a solution that is known to scale 
> well if you are writing highly interactive applications. For D 
> that could be ARC.

Just leaving this here from a little well known company.

https://developer.arm.com/solutions/internet-of-things/languages-and-libraries/go

ARC, tracing GC, whatever, but make your mind otherwise other 
languages that know what they want to be get the spotlight in 
such vendors.