Why does D rely on a GC?

[Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d]

On 18/08/2014 13:27, Maik Klein wrote:
> If I do something like:
>
> auto ptr = Unique(Foo);
>
> Would the GC still be used, or would the resource be freed by the
> destructor?

It uses GC allocation, but the memory will be freed deterministically:

{
   Unique!Foo u = new Foo;
   // u's destructor will call 'delete' on its instance of Foo here
}