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[Paulo Pinto]

On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 13:11:20 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 13:00:35 UTC, JN wrote:
>> There is always someone saying that you don't have to use GC 
>> in D
>
> Yeah, this is true and for special cases we can show users how 
> it is done, but I wish we'd just focus on actually selling GC 
> instead of hiding from it.
>
> GC is a proven winner in real world industry programming and is 
> one of D's strengths. Why we constantly shoot ourselves in the 
> foot by conceding this ground to internet trolls is beyond me.

Indeed, even hard core C++ devs that happen to work with Unreal, 
UWP/COM or DriverKit have to make peace with GC technologies 
(either tracing or refcounted).