On Saturday, 13 May 2017 at 11:05:26 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Saturday, 13 May 2017 at 06:47:54 UTC, nkm1 wrote:
Atilla's library... but, as someone on Reddit said, at the
moment that is rather "unergonomic".
I'm sure that will get better over time, though. At least I
don't see why not. Most of what is needed is already there.
The problem with trying to satisfy Reddit is that they want the
GC removed from the language. They want it off by default, they
want all language features to work without the GC, they want
all of Phobos to be free of the GC, and they want all code
anyone else writes in D to be written without the GC in case
they want to call that code.
I'm all for adding additional features to the language for
those that prefer to avoid the GC. But that's not what the
anti-GC coalition is asking for.
The worse is that most of this whiners don't even know how the GC
in D works as made completely obvious by this thread [0].
This is the perfect illustration that most of the anti-GC brigade
at reddit are out to lunch. I'm wondering if catering to these
requirements is a good idea.
[0]:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6as1di/serialization_in_d/dhhvly2/
