On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 13:29:18 UTC, John wrote:
On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 09:57:09 UTC, currysoup wrote:
It's not about "acceptance", it's about the reality that a GC
is not a universal solution to memory management.
Just from watching a few of the DConf 2014 talks, if you want
performance you avoid the GC at all costs (even if that means
allocating into huge predefined buffers). Once you're going to
these lengths to avoid garbage collection it begs the
question, why are you even using this language? Within this
community the question is rhetorical but to outsiders I feel
it's a major concern.
If D came without GC, it would have replaced C++ a long time
ago!
The only thing that would have been replaced is the complaints
that D has a garbage collector with complaints that D doesn't
have the tools and existing libraries of C++. If C++ users were
sincere in their claims that they really want to use D, they'd
have disabled the garbage collector and used it.
I think the GC issue is eating resources that would be better
spent elsewhere.
