On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 03:37:51 UTC, Adrian wrote:
Hi all,
I know there's been quite some discussion about the GC in D,
but I've been busy doing other things and haven't been
following that closely.
So I'd appreciate it if someone could fill me in about
proceedings/decisions in this regard...
+ Has the GC been dropped?
+ If not, can it be disabled entirely/completely?
D has always greatly impressed me, but I need a systems
language without garbage collection; has D become that now?
Thanks in advance for any responses.
Adrian.
- No, D is a fully garbage collected language.
- No, it can't be disabled if you want to keep using "impressive
features" of the language.
Long story short, if you prefer to manage your own god-damn
memory manually, D isn't the way to go. No sir, you are stuck
with an inefficient GC. They've been improving the GC for years,
but it's still not good enough. I suggest Rust, or something like
that.
