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On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 14:43:22 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> 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).

I've heard heard the Unreal argument before. That's not the same 
thing as a GC in a programming language. You wouldn't be able to 
build the GC built in Unreal in a GC only language. You are using 
it as an example to use the GC but in reality it demonstrates the 
need for programming languages that doesn't force you to use one.