The "no gc" crowd

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On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 15:43:46 UTC, ponce wrote:
> Whatever rational rebutal we have it's never heard.
> The long answer is that it's not a real problem. But it seems 
> people want a short answer. It's also an annoying fight to have 
> since so much of it is based on zero data.

Do not forget the followup: Without GC you cannot use the 
standard library.

I am not sure if there is a really good counter. Some people 
think that a GC will never ever be possible in their domain. 
Either they are right or no rational argument will help. Only a 
small percentage will read the reasonable long argumentation.

Maybe a killer app: Something hard realtime and high performance 
packed into a commercially successful product of a well known 
company.