Why are the nogc crowed labeled as alarmists?!?!

Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jul 17 11:28:29 PDT 2014


On 7/17/14, 3:13 PM, Frustrated wrote:
> Are those that say the GC is fine and works for 90-95% of apps without
> issue just ignorant? Or are they arrogant?

We probably do webapps and other stuff that is not real-time. A GC there 
works just fine.

Now, if you compare the amount of audio apps, surveilance apps and 
real-time games with the amount of webapps out there, or the amount of 
command line tools out there, or text editors (SublimeText is done in 
Python, I think), or a web service, or some background job ... I would 
conclude that 90-95% is a pretty good guess.

For that other %5 you can use C, C++ or Rust, but be prepared do deal 
with hard languages.

So, you are right: D has to choose what he wants to cover: that %5, that 
%95, or both (at the expense of becoming a really difficult language to 
use).



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