OSNews article about C++09 degenerates into C++ vs. D discussion

[Jeff]

> Indeed.  The people who really need to be GC-free are a tiny minority. 
> Wasting a lot of manpower creating a non-GC library just people who 
> don't want to convert from C++ will have one less justification for not 
> using D sees like a huge waste of effort to me.

What about game developers? At least with the current GC, although use 
of malloc/free isn't strictly deterministic, aren't you far less likely 
to end up with huge (by game standards, and hence unacceptable) pauses 
to execution? Preallocation of everything isn't always possible.