D is crap

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad 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? ;-)

Reference counting is a technique for collecting garbage, but the 
term «garbage collection» is typically used for techniques that 
catch cycles by tracing down chains of pointers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)#Tracing_garbage_collectors