On Tuesday, 6 December 2016 at 22:23:25 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Tuesday, 6 December 2016 at 22:13:54 UTC, bpr wrote:
Those programmers who are comfortable working in a GC-ed
language will likely eschew D because D's GC is really not
that great.
So someone working with Ruby is not going to want to work with
D because of GC performance?
Ruby programmers are probably not concerned with performance at
all ever. It's a slow interpreted language with a GIL. But if
you're on a Rails project, that's what you'll use.
If I really *want* to use a GC, say I'm writing a server and I
believe that a well tuned GC will allow my server to stay alive
much longer with less fragmentation, I'll probably skip D and
pick Go or maybe (hmmm...) even Java because their GCs have had a
lot of engineering effort.
I wonder what percentage of Ruby programmers have thought about
garbage collection ever.
Why would a Ruby or Python programmer unconcerned with
performance want to switch to D? I'm sure there are some who
would, but I'd imagine they're rare.
