Messaging

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/27/14, 4:27 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> 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.

Well put! -- Andrei