If I had my way

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 10.12.2011 21:35, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
> On 12/10/11 2:22 PM, maarten van damme wrote:
>> Just for fun I
>> wanted to create a program as little as possible, compiled without
>> garbage collector/phobos/... and it turned out that compiling without
>> garbage collector is pretty much impossible (memory leaks all around the
>> place in druntime). dynamic linking for the d standard library would be
>> a great new option for a dmd release in the future :).
>
> Using D without GC is an interesting direction, and dynamic linking
> should be available relatively soon.
>
>
> Andrei

As a long time beliver in systems programming languages with GC support
(Modula-3, Oberon, Sing#, ...), I think allowing this in D is the wrong 
direction.

Sure provinding APIs to control GC behavior makes sense, but not turn it
off, we already have enough languages to do systems programming without GC.