What's the go with the GC these days?

[JN]

On Monday, 7 January 2019 at 15:54:32 UTC, welkam wrote:
> For things to change we need to change minds. I have watched 
> many debates in religion, climate change and politics and saw 
> just how hard it is to change some people opinions. The best 
> hope is to target people in the middle that dont have strong 
> opinions one way or another and repeatedly expose to 
> information that shows that GC is not a problem.

I think for many people (especially C++ folks which seem to be 
the main target of D leadership) the mere existence of GC is 
enough to turn them off. Here's a quote I found on Rust subreddit 
today:

"I remember getting excited about D in 2002 exactly because it 
was supposed to be 'C++-improved' and then learning that D had GC 
which made it less 'C++-improved' and more 'Java-improved'. I 
switched to Rust exactly because I find it 'C++-improved'."

The mere existence of GC instantly puts D into application 
programming language rather than systems programming language for 
most people. Are they correct? Debatable. However the mental 
barrier is there and it's hard to get through with a nice message.