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[Laeeth Isharc]

On Sunday, 15 October 2017 at 07:21:55 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
> But as a C++ developer, I can tell you that : D's GC is what 
> prevents me to use it for my current C++ programming tasks.
>
> Because I can perfectly live with a GC that progressively 
> collects bits of memory in a predefined amount of time, like in 
> the Nim language, but not one that can pause my application for 
> an unpredictable amount of time.
>
> That's just my personal case and opinion, but I don't think I'm 
> the only C++ programmer on the planet to dislike D's GC for 
> typical C++ development cases, which are generally those where 
> the lack of a GC is the reason that lead to the use of C++.

Out of curiosity, what is it that stops you keeping the heap 
small and allocating memory manually for the rest?