[OT] compiler optimisations

[Lucas via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 25 April 2015 at 07:51:38 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> C++ would have been dead if the memory model was based on a 
> Boehm GC. Many people have tried and left D due to compiler 
> quality and GC. If those two issues had been given the highest 
> priority (over new features) D would have taken a larger market 
> share a long time ago.
>
> (And no Tango/Phobos was not a big deal, just a minor 
> annoyance.)

That's me. I looked at D a while back and started playing around 
with it some, but it seemed at the time D was still working out 
it's design (v2 was being discussed) and the GC seemed too 
integral in the libraries. I came back recently to see how its 
progressed and the focus seems to be like it wants to be a lower 
level scripting language. I can just use Java or C# for such 
things, both have a wider range of supported platforms and 
perform pretty well for having a GC. D does seem nice for shell 
scripting on *nix though.

But the GC is annoying when making games, it's like a network 
lag, very noticeable, even with tuning.

I use C++ as C with classes. If C had namespaces, strings, 
templates with a good syntax and was all in one file it would be 
a dream (classes are a bonus). That was my initial impression of 
D... until I learned of the GC. Then I thought of it as Java/C# 
without the VM.

The lack of supported platforms was also a consideration. At a 
minimum I'd want 64 bit desktop support for Linux, OSX and 
Windows and mobile support for iOS and Android. LDC is tempting.