D is crap

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 11:27:13 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> and with refcounting i have to *explicitly* mark all the code 
> as "no refcounting here", or accept refcounting overhead for 
> nothing.

That would be automatic reference counting ;-)... Reference 
counting is ok for shared ownership, but in most cases overkill. 
Garbage collection is also useful in some settings, e.g. in some 
types of graph manipulation. Where things go wrong for D is to 
use primitive global garbage collection. It would have worked out 
ok if it provided only primitive local garbage collection.

So what D needs is:

1. local garbage collection (for a single fiber or a facade to a 
graph).

2. solid global ownership management (for both resources and 
memory).

Most newbies can then happily write single-threaded code as 
usual. More advanced programmers need to deal with shared 
ownership. Which they might have to do anyway, since garbage 
collection does not handle resources.