Maybe D is right about GC after all !

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On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 11:27:29 UTC, Russel Winder 
wrote:
>
> 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.

That is a little misleading. It was always the intention of Rust 
designers to allow userd to tie into a garbage collector - like 
spidermonkey.

It was never designed to be a language that can't make use of GC.

D has gc by default instead. But it's flexible enough to use 
RAII, and you can customise GC a lot....

So Gstreamer people could have easily worked with D, and I don't 
believe D's GC implementation would have been a show stopper for 
them.