On Sunday, 4 December 2022 at 12:37:08 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
All of the top 5 most popular libraries on code.dlang.org embrace the GC.
Interesting. It seems that most of the community suppose that “library” should be used from D :-) But in my opinion - “foreign library experience” is much more important. The usage of D is not that wide… but if it will be possible to write library in D and use it from C/++/Python/R/JVM(JNI)/Erlang(NIF)/nameYourChoice smoothly it will be a win. Run fast (it could be Rust, Zig) extension/library from more high level/less safe/slower dynamic languages. And not only run but also write fast(here is D and Nim could be chosen).
Many languages do not have GC inside.. and others have their own. And if your library is going to manipulate objects from other languages with different memory management approach - it could be tricky to do that with GC. You need to make that both GC become friends
