Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

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On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 04:17:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 02:30:55 UTC, Pie? wrote:
>> Duh! The claim is made that D can work without the GC... but 
>> that's a red herring... If you take about the GC what do you 
>> have?
>
> Like 90% of the language, still generally nicer than most the 
> competition.
>
> Though, I wish D would just own its decision instead of bowing 
> to Reddit pressure. GC is a proven success in the real world 
> with a long and impressive track record. Yes, there are times 
> when you need to optimize your code, but even then you aren't 
> really worse off with it than without it.

GC is okay if there is a way to ensure it does not suspend time 
critical code.  Right now this is not possible.  Even if my time 
critical code is completely @nogc, other threads still can 
trigger  the GC and stop the world including my time critical 
thread.