A betterC base

[meppl]

On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 15:55:09 UTC, JN wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 14:54:19 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
> wrote:
>> Garbage collection has proved to be a smashing success in the 
>> industry, providing productivity and memory-safety to 
>> programmers of all skill levels.
>
> Citation needed on how garbage collection has been a smashing 
> success based on its merits rather than the merits of the 
> languages that use garbage collection. Python was also a 
> smashing success, but it doesn't use a garbage collector in 
> it's default implementation (CPython). Unless you mean garbage 
> collection as in "not manual memory management"? But that still 
> might not be as simple, because RAII would fall somewhere 
> inbetween.

let's say python is supposed to offer slow execution. So, python 
doesn't prove reference counting is fast (even if it is possible 
in theory). D on the other hand provides binaries who are 
expected to execute fast.