World needs a safe language

[Dylan Graham]

On Sunday, 11 April 2021 at 10:10:02 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 April 2021 at 09:47:15 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 April 2021 at 09:29:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> I think you misunderstand my position. The comment you replied 
>> to was me discussing D's leadership/outlook style.
>>
>> In my comment above that, I did mention exactly what you are 
>> doing. LWDR is my attempt to make full D accessible in the 
>> embedded world. I am trying to improve D in a sector that I 
>> personally prioritise.
>
> I was kind of agreeing with you, the goal needs to be to 
> improve existing features, trying to sell it to the GC haters 
> crowd is worthless effort, they will just come up with the next 
> reason why D isn't suitable for them.

My apologies, I misinterpreted what you were saying. I agree. D 
has made many efforts to reduce it's GC dependency and there are 
packages to help bridge the gaps the language can't. Alas, there 
is still a lot of die-hard anti-GC folk.

Honestly, I kinda of like the simplicity of D's GC. I know why 
it's going to run, when it's going to run and what it will do. In 
tight situations where I don't want the GC, it's super easy to 
avoid. D currently has a tremendous amount of flexibility, I can 
develop fast where I want and blazing performance where I want. I 
feel like D's flexibility is criminally undervalued.