On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 19:57:19 UTC, Piotr Kowalski wrote:
The only discussion I remember about D was that it had two standard libraries and there were no consensus on which to use and that it uses GC so it's slow.
It seems it's impossible to completely shrug off past impressions. The two std libs thing hasn't been a problem since 2012. Solutions to the GC being slow have existed for a while and the GC has been sped up a lot in the past couple of years.
What is the plan for D for next 5 years?
https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2017H1
What about RAII?
It's already in the language.
Did you consider implementing solutions from which we could get memory safety without GC in D?
The current proposal is this https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1000.md
This is currently a point of contention. See also https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#function-safety
