On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 11:27:29 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
However, in the end, the GStreamer core people know C, C++ a
bit, D not at all. I suspect even if the choice had been Rust
or D, Rust would have been chosen because it has no GC and D is
a GC language.
That is a little misleading. It was always the intention of Rust
designers to allow userd to tie into a garbage collector - like
spidermonkey.
It was never designed to be a language that can't make use of GC.
D has gc by default instead. But it's flexible enough to use
RAII, and you can customise GC a lot....
So Gstreamer people could have easily worked with D, and I don't
believe D's GC implementation would have been a show stopper for
them.
