Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Charles Hixson via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/05/2016 09:17 PM, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d 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.
>
Usually correct, but there are times when you want to suspend the 
garbage collection.  The problem is this should always be a scoped 
decision, because it's easy to accidentally leave it turned off, and 
then it's MUCH worse than not having it.