Why many programmers don't like GC?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 15:20:05 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> Hypothetically, would it be possible for users to supply their 
> own garbage collector that uses write barriers?

Yes. You could translate Google Chrome's Oilpan to D. It uses 
library smart pointers for dirty-marking. But it requires you to 
write a virtual function that points out what should be traced 
(actually does the tracing for the outgoing pointers from that 
object):