On 12 February 2014 07:12, Frank Bauer <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent idea. All the cries (including mine) for a non-GC D > would stop at once.
No they wouldn't. This is not what I'm asking for in any of my posts. This is almost exclusively useful in tiny-embedded environments (ie, microcontrollers). Instead, we could focus on gradually bringing > all the remaining features of D-Full into D-Core over the next > years. Walter would have to judge on that, but to an outsider it > looks doable without too much resources. > > And, as I firmly believe, this could make the difference between > D getting accepted by the C++ crowd on one side and D > disappearing from the scene as just another C# / Java clone > (untrue, but I talk about public perception). > I don't actually think this is what the 'no GC' crowd want. C++ programmers will not be satisfied with this. They'll see it as a step backwards towards C, not forwards.
