On Saturday, 1 February 2014 at 11:40:37 UTC, Frustrated wrote:
And why does Phobos/runtime require the GC in so many cases when
it could just use an internal buffer? So much effort has been
put
in to make the GC work that it simply has neglected all those
that can't use it as it is.
This is the crux of the problem. It's not so much that D uses
garbage collection as that Phobos is built in a way that prevents
the reuse of existing buffers. It becomes much harder to sell
the language to a GC averse group if it turns out they can't use
the standard library as well. Though I guess Tango is an option
here as a replacement.
