On Wednesday, 7 December 2016 at 02:24:56 UTC, bpr wrote:
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.
Writing a server is quite narrow compared to the "programmers who
are comfortable working in a GC-ed language" that I was
responding to.
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.
Maybe some prefer D as a language? The same argument could be
used against any language. Performance is far from the only
reason to use D.
