On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 15:31:40 UTC, Brian Rogoff wrote:
On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 11:28:12 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
http://c0de517e.blogspot.ca/2014/06/where-is-my-c-replacement.html?m=1
The arguments against D are pretty weak if I'm honest, but I
think it's important we understand what people think of D. I
can confirm this sentiment is fairly common in the industry.
Notice that in his post and the comments, a recurring
(negative) issue is garbage collection. This is pretty common
with mentions of D on reddit too, always a few posters
mentioning D's GC as a negative. So many of those comments
could be made obsolete by a decent precise garbage collector,
and perhaps a compiler switch like the 'noruntime' one that
Walter proposed a few months ago.
I don't think a precise GC would fix this particular complaint.
Games industry folks just don't like GC, mostly because of the
pause, but also because of memory scarcity.
I believe @nogc is going into 2.066. Maybe that will help, but we
also need to make sure Phobos actually compiles with @nogc :-)
