You don't like GC? Do you?

[Tony]

On Monday, 15 October 2018 at 08:21:11 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
> On Monday, 15 October 2018 at 05:26:56 UTC, Tony wrote:

>>
>> Ideally you wouldn’t have chosen to even try D. You (and 
>> others who spend so much time arguing against garbage 
>> collection on a forum for a language designed with garbage 
>> collection) would be better off using a non-garbage collected 
>> language.
>
> He doesn't argue against garbage collection.

Well, can you state what he does argue against?

> And D is one of the few languages that can be used without 
> garbage collection, so it can be a non-garbage collected 
> language and can be used as such.

Wouldn't C++ or Rust, with their smart pointers, be a better 
choice for someone who wants to use a compiles-to-object-code 
language, but can't suffer any garbage collector delays?