Tsoding streamed about D

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 02:29:00 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 18, 2025 8:18:13 PM MDT Meta via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> "This language is garbage collected, and they're fucking 
>> ashamed of that!"
>>
>> This guy is surprisingly perceptive and 100% accurate with his 
>> cutting observations hahaha.
>
> Plenty of us aren't (in fact, personally, I'd never have gotten 
> into D if it didn't have a GC), but it certainly comes across 
> that way a lot of the time because of attempts to make the 
> folks happy who don't want the GC. IMHO, while being able to do 
> stuff without using the GC is great, we've harmed ourselves by 
> continually trying to make C/C++ people who hate the GC happy 
> with D. And we keep getting into arguments about how to do 
> stuff because there's a divide between those folks who are 
> happy that D has a GC and those who don't want anything to do 
> with the GC. The result is kind of schizophrenic.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Same here, hence why I hang around D, use C# and Java 
professionally, Go occasionally even if not freely, and love the 
work being done in Swift, Chapel, Linear Haskell, OCaml effects, 
Idris, Dafny, FStar....

Alongside all those folks that aren't asking for forgiveness 
selling selling bare metal managed IoT platforms.

What D has missed versus those other ecosystems, is drawing the 
line that if that isn't what someone is looking for in a 
language, they can gladly look elsewhere, thus the schizophrenic 
outcome.