TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

[rsw0x via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 17:42:15 UTC, Gerald wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 17:10:51 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
>> D's GC is a failure, the amount of effort needed/given to work 
>> around it should be proof enough of this.
>
> Coming from a Java background and being an application rather 
> then systems developer one thing that attracted me to D was the 
> garbage collection. While D's GC implementation is not great, 
> I'd hate to see it dropped. Personally I'd rather priority be 
> given to improving the GC implementation rather then building 
> manual allocation methods but that's just me.

D's GC will forever be far below anything in a managed 
environment without fundamentally altering the language.

I'd honestly be surprised if a GC heavy D application was faster 
than python.