D is crap

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 08:06:54 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 07:52:57 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> removed the GC
> ...
>> replaced it with automatic reference counting.
>
> you *do* know that refcounting *is* GC, do you? ;-)

And that's a very important point, because the choice of RC vs 
other types of GC ignores the fact that they're both GC, and old 
school programmers didn't want anything to do with a "feature" 
that would slow down their code. RC would have been an even worse 
choice when D started because it is [claimed to be] slower than 
other types of GC. It's been a long time now, but I don't recall 
many arguments against Java's GC because of pauses. The objection 
was always that it would make the code run more slowly.