Why does D rely on a GC?

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 16:17:02 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 15:16:31 UTC, Ary Borenszweig 
> wrote:
>> Also, the list seems way too big. It's ok from a purist point 
>> of view, to make the compiler nice and clean. But that's not a 
>> good way to make a fast compiler.
>
> This is why I won't bother investing any time in it for a few 
> more years at least. It may have really cool language features, 
> big development team and famous names behind it but in terms of 
> compiler maturity it is still a very long road to go until it 
> gets even to DMD capabilities.

I won't look at it again for a different reason. They're the 
types that say "A monad is just a monoid in the category of 
endofunctors, what's the problem?" but they're serious.

My last interaction with Rust was when I commented that adoption 
would be hurt if they require an understanding of the memory 
model just to get started, to which they responded more or less 
that it's not a big deal. At that point I concluded the language 
was lost. I can only imagine what it will look like in five years.