On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 22:55:05 UTC, RhyS wrote:
Be honest, how many people will use BetterC in production!
Much, MUCH more likely than that I would ever use full D with GC in production.
Really, if I want a language with a GC, D is not that good. Why wouldn't I use a JVM language (Java, Kotlin, Scala) or Go or something else? Notice how they all have precise GCs? Or maybe I'd use a functional language like OCaml or Haskell. Same deal, precise GC.
The truth is that D is by design NOT a replacement for C++ when a low level systems programming language must be used. DasBetterC is close to what I'd like when I have to use C++, but not yet ideal. I'm starting to think that Rust (or, C++ 17 and beyond) will win this battle because every other language shows up with stuff I don't want.
