On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 04:17:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Though, I wish D would just own its decision instead of bowing to Reddit pressure. GC is a proven success in the real world with a long and impressive track record. Yes, there are times when you need to optimize your code, but even then you aren't really worse off with it than without it.
While I understand that some people can't afford a GC, this has confused me as well.
I never understood the large amount of people on /r/programming complaining about the GC when the vast majority of software is written in one of the following languages: C#, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript. Those have to cover at least 80% of all software projects in the US and not only do they have a GC, they force you to use a GC. This just shows to me that /r/programming is not a representative sample of programmers at all.
The anti D's GC thing has become meme at this point. I have literally seen only one person on /r/programming complain about Go's GC, despite Go being a slower language overall.
