On Thursday, 27 April 2017 at 15:50:56 UTC, Ben wrote:
A few days ago i was reading this topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14165198
And the whole GC keeps coming up as a negative ( compared to
Rust ).
That's subjective, at best.
I see most of Rust's ownership mechanics in a negative light
(love the lisp-inspired syntax, though), as they incur a severe
productivity decrease while providing little safety benefit for
/me/ over what I already have in D. But, as always, YMMV.
From my understanding there has been a proposal DIP1000 to
address this issue.
You'll have to be more specific about what issue you're referring
to. People not liking garbage collection? In any case, AFAIU
DIP1000 was about more mechanically verifiable memory safety
features when not using the GC.
Is it possible to run D without the GC AND the standard library?
It is possible to run a D program without the GC only if you
don't allocate using the GC. If you want to see D code that does
allocate using the GC, the compiler flag `-vgc` is your friend
(compile Phobos with `-vgc` for kicks). Currently, not all of
Phobos is free of GC allocations, most notably exceptions (refer
to [1] and similar topics)
[1] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
