DIP60: @nogc attribute

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/16/14, 2:03 AM, JN wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 01:57:29 UTC, Mike wrote:
>> I don't believe users hesitant to use D will suddenly come to D now
>> that there is a @nogc attribute.  I also don't believe they want to
>> avoid the GC, even if they say they do.  I believe what they really
>> want is to have an alternative to the GC.
>
> I'd have to agree. I doubt @nogc will change anything, people will just
> start complaining about limitations of @nogc (no array concat, having to
> use own libraries which may be incompatible with phobos). The complaints
> mostly come from the fact that D wants to offer a choice, in other
> languages people just accept what they have. You don't see C# developers
> complaining much about having to use GC, or C++ programmers all over the
> world asking for GC. Well, most of the new games (Unity3D) are done in
> C# nowadays and people live with it even though game development is one
> of the biggest C++ loving and GC hating crowd there is.
>
> Another issue is the quality of D garbage collector, but adding
> alternative memory management ways doesn't help, fragmenting the codebase.

My perception is the opposite. Time will tell. -- Andrei