Bottom line re GC in D

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 10:25:17 UTC, Oluca wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 10:07:18 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 09:57:15 UTC, Oluca wrote:
>>> - No, it can't be disabled if you want to keep using 
>>> "impressive
>>> features" of the language.
>>
>> What do CTFE, mixins, Ds powerful template mechanism, 
>> immutable +
>> slices, sane operator overloading, opDispatch, alias this and
>> UFCS, RAII + scope statements to do with the GC?
>>
>>> Long story short, if you prefer to manage your own god-damn
>>> memory manually, D isn't the way to go. No sir, you are stuck
>>> with an inefficient GC.
>>> They've been improving the GC for years,
>>> but it's still not good enough.
>>
>> How does the quality of the GC even matter if you're not going 
>> to use it?
>
> - You can't use slices.

See my other post. This is not true. They aren't quite as 
powerful or convenient without the GC, but you definitely can use 
them.