Why does D rely on a GC?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/19/14, 10:11 AM, bachmeier wrote:
> 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.

What is the main Rust forum? Thanks, Andrei