On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 04:17:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 02:30:55 UTC, Pie? wrote:
Duh! The claim is made that D can work without the GC... but
that's a red herring... If you take about the GC what do you
have?
Like 90% of the language, still generally nicer than most the
competition.
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.
GC is okay if there is a way to ensure it does not suspend time
critical code. Right now this is not possible. Even if my time
critical code is completely @nogc, other threads still can
trigger the GC and stop the world including my time critical
thread.
