D Language Foundation July 2025 Quarterly Meeting Summary

[bauss]

On Sunday, 11 January 2026 at 14:56:07 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> ### Walter
>
> Walter said he’d previously complained about the lack of D 
> articles on Hacker News, but one had shown up recently and 
> turned out to be a significant success for us. He wanted more 
> of that kind of visibility.
>
> He then went into a little rant about people who said "I used D 
> for years, but it had this one flaw, so I dropped it," and then 
> presented that flaw as the reason D couldn't succeed. The 
> example he’d seen lately was, "I can’t use D because the 
> exception handler uses the garbage collector."
>

GC is the reason I __use__ D.