OSNews thread here degenerates into GC vs not

[Hasan Aljudy]

Mike Capp wrote:
> Georg Wrede wrote:
>> Who's had a GC problem /for real/?
> 
> Resharper refactoring plugin for Visual Studio; we use it heavily for our C#
> development. It regularly freezes up for a minute or so at a time. That's the
> dotNet runtime's GC, granted, but I have a hard time believing that D's would do
> better.

Might it not be something wrong in the plug-in itself? Does it happen 
with all plugins or only that particular plugin?

> 
> This isn't as simple as a "GC vs not" debate; I don't think anyone (here, at
> least) would argue that GC is worthless. Rather there are at least three open
> questions:
> 
> 1) When and where is GC appropriate?
> 
> 2) When it is appropriate, how good is D's implementation of it?
> 
> 3) When it's not appropriate, how well does D support GC-less (and possibly
> allocation-less) programming?