Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers

[Carl Sturtivant]

On Saturday, 6 April 2024 at 01:31:33 UTC, zjh wrote:
> On Sunday, 31 March 2024 at 14:22:43 UTC, Adam wrote:
>
>> [1]: https://bitbashing.io/gc-for-systems-programmers.html
>
>
> I think if you like `GC`, you can try `openD`, which is pure 
> `GC`.

False.

> As for `D`, if it's purely `GC`, why don't others use `Rust`?

Bogus assumption about D.

> Are you prepared to completely abandon for `system scope`?.

Straw man.

None of the things you knock down are a part of the conversation 
in this forum thread. There is no "pure GC", and everything you 
said has been dealt with sanely in advance.

On Thursday, 4 April 2024 at 14:32:58 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> the problem is that the anti-GC zealots make the following 
> claims:
>
> - The GC gets in the way. It needs to be removed the way Rust 
> removed theirs for performance reasons.
> - D isn't suitable as a systems programming language because it 
> has a GC.
> - GC should be removed as the default because it leads to bad 
> practice.
> - All D programs have to use the GC.