Why many programmers don't like GC?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 14:24:40 UTC, welkam wrote:
> You can use GC with D compiler by passing -lowmem flag. I didnt 
> measure but I heard it can increase compilation time by 3x.

Thanks for the info. 3x is a lot though, maybe it could be 
improved with precise collection, but I assume that would require 
a rewrite.

Making it use automatic garbage collection (of some form) would 
be an interesting benchmark.