On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 10:13:43 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Saturday, 12 July 2014 at 10:27:12 UTC, Russel Winder via
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I think we need to address these issues, because they are of a
psychological nature and not really language issues. I'm sure
that if we fixed GC and had the best implementation ever,
people would find something else to complain about "D doesn't
have blah, I don't like it!"
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I'm sort of getting the idea that D goal would to be a better
Java.
I'm running away from Java (after 10 years). I hope that someone
at D has power and can say NO to a feature the way Linus does as
opposed to adding more 'JCP' features, pushing such stuff
downstream. Adding more features to be good at everything, aka a
submarine that is a law mover. It's all done w/ best intentions.
But forcing GC into base library of a system programing language?
Maybe D is not a system programing language, but a enterprise app
productivity lang. At least give us a choice, to use D why do I
have to re-write the base lib.
Cheers, Vic
