On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 04:16:38 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 00:57:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
http://blog.experimentalworks.net/2015/01/the-d-language-a-sweet-spot-between-python-and-c/
Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/30qqck/the_d_language_a_sweetspot_between_python_and_c/
a lot of the people in the thread are unaware that D even has
RAII like C++, and think it's just a GC language like java/etc.
Maybe this is something worth mentioning more on the
introduction?
Also, there is a perception that you can't use the standard
library and nicer language features if you do your own allocation
and don't depend on the GC. A guy worrying about hygiene
problems mixing GC and Raii libraries. Whereas most garbage is
small and fine to use GC for in some applications - only a subset
of real time applications suffer from generating gazillions of
tiny objects. It would be good to set out somewhere what you
lose as regards std library by insisting on using nogc. The
point about std.algorithm should be made more prominent.
