D Language Foundation July 2025 Quarterly Meeting Summary

[Kapendev]

On Sunday, 11 January 2026 at 18:14:40 UTC, bauss wrote:
> 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.

Some people just have GC phobia