On Friday, 4 June 2021 at 18:34:32 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
You might be surprised, but it's actually not up to you what
topic fits or not.
I said GC-phobia is irrational, I did not say any criticism of
it is.
Obviously GC is good for some things and not good at all for
other things.
What *is* irrational is saying it has absolutely no place at
all.
I don't think it is a phobia but it is a question of choice. We
can clearly observe how different the demands are for different
programmers in this forum. I enjoy GC for the appropriate
programs, however there are SW where GC is a problem and cannot
be used. Because of this Phobos must take the lowest common
denominator approach (malloc/free) in order to be able to
accommodate all the different needs.
D is one these Swiss army knife languages that can be used for
everything, including low level software and everything in
between. What D should strive for is to give programmers a choice
and put up as few barriers as possible. It's certainly
challenging to make a library and language fitting everyone needs
but D is at least one of the best foundation of achieving that
goal.
