Messaging

[Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d]

Just had an unfortunate exchange on Twitter

https://twitter.com/bitshifternz/status/515998608009601024

Him: "isn't D garbage collected? That would make it a non-starter 
for me."

Me: "it's optional. malloc/free are available and we'll have 
allocators soon that can hook into std lib."

Him: "if that's the case the D website does a poor job of 
spelling it out. Nothing in FAQ or here 
http://dlang.org/garbage.html"
Him: ""D is a fully garbage collected language" doesn't sound 
very optional!"
Him: "now I'm going to have to look at D properly!"


I've now filed a bug.

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13547

I've literally had 3 or 4 conversations in just the past few 
days, both online and in person with people that believe D is 
only garbage collected. We have to fix this perception. It's 
literally scaring people away from even looking at anything else 
the language has to offer.