On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Rainer Deyke <[email protected]> wrote: > Bill Baxter wrote: >> There are many categories in which D is behind C++, but as far as the >> core language goes, I would choose to use D1.0 over C++ any day. > > I would not. To this C++ programmer, using D 1.0 feels like stepping > back from C++ to C in terms of resource management.
Ok. Now that's actually useful information. Resource management. That's fair. It is difficult to do things like ref-counted pointers in D1. If I weren't satisfied using the built-in garbage collection for just about everything, I would probably find D a lot less attractive. --bb
