Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 11:27:29 UTC, Russel Winder 
wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-12-27 at 18:41 +0000, Laeeth Isharc via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> 
> […]
> However the GStreamer folk are backing Rust (for memory safety 
> issues noted earlier) so even though D has a GStreamer binding 
> (thanks to Mike and GtkD) I more or less have to use Rust 
> because it is the official binding. Comparing and contrasting D 
> and Rust is interesting for me. Both have many pluses and many 
> minuses. However, in the end, the GStreamer core people know C, 
> C++ a bit, D not at all. I suspect even if the choice had been 
> Rust or D, Rust would have been chosen because it has no GC and 
> D is a GC language.

Not only GStreamer, Rust is on its way to become an offical GNOME 
language, and who knows, eventually take over Vala's role.