A betterC base

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 18:06:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/8/2018 9:03 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
>> If D had a decent garbage collector it might be a more 
>> convincing argument.
>
> 'Decent' GC systems rely on the compiler emitting "write gates" 
> around every assignment to a pointer. These are justified in 
> languages like Java and Go for which everything is GC 
> allocated, but they would be a performance disaster for a 
> hybrid language like D.
>
> More precise GC exacts heavy runtime penalties, too, which is 
> why attempts to add them to D have had mixed results.
>
> I.e. it isn't an issue of us D guys being dumb about the GC.
>
>> If going malloc didnt lose you a bunch of features and bring a 
>> bunch of other stuff you need to be careful of, that might be 
>> a good argument too.
>
> With @nogc, you don't have to be careful about it. The compiler 
> will let you know.

.NET, Eiffel, Modula-3 and the various Oberon variants are all 
examples where not everything is GC allocated.

C# 8.0 with .NET Native is getting the features I mostly cared 
from D.