On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 20:49:33 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 20:40:50 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
In this case, I think it's a marketing issue, not a technical
one. D's being marketed as an alternative to C++, and existing
C++ users tend to believe that any garbage collector is too
slow to be usable.
Yes, I've noticed how some C++ programmers on reddit and other
places say things like "I looked at the website for language X,
but when I saw they mentioned using a GC I lost all interest".
These are looking for a reason not to use X. They were never
potential users.
