Beginning with D

[Bill Baxter]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Rainer Deyke <rainerd at eldwood.com> wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> There are many categories in which D is behind C++, but as far as the
>> core language goes, I would choose to use D1.0 over C++ any day.
>
> I would not.  To this C++ programmer, using D 1.0 feels like stepping
> back from C++ to C in terms of resource management.

Ok.  Now that's actually useful information.  Resource management.
That's fair.  It is difficult to do things like ref-counted pointers
in D1.  If I weren't satisfied using the built-in garbage collection
for just about everything, I would probably find D a lot less
attractive.

--bb