D without a GC (Was: Advocacy (Was: Who here actually uses D?))

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:41:37 +0200, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> How much of D can you really use without Phobos? I imagine there'd be  
>> no problem in using it as a better C, but there isn't much appeal to  
>> that,
>
> I don't agree there's not much appeal to that. D has quite a bit that  
> makes C-style code much easier and more robust, such as the module  
> system. C doesn't even have thread local storage!

You took my line out of context :) Of course D is better than C and can be  
used as a better C, but I was making the comparison to C++/STL/Boost.  
Well, it depends on which features you're after - if you're Linus Torvalds  
and hate abstractions, D minus Phobos would indeed be a better deal than  
C++/STL/Boost :)


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  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net