On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 16:02:18 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
Another thing I have found funny is that how he both mentions
GC as an issue an favors Go (with mandatory GC) over Rust
(dismissing it memory model as irrelevant).
Well, he mentioned that Go's mandatory GC is a negative in game
dev, and only a positive vis-a-vis Rust in that Rust requires
some advanced type machinery to ensure memory safety sans GC.
GC does have large pluses and minuses, so it's easy to contradict
ones self when discussing it. I think D would have been better
off not requiring it, but trying to be GC friendly (like Rust and
Ada), but that ship sailed a long time ago. Now I'd just like to
see D acquire a very good GC and the ability to easily write code
which doesn't use it, or uses a specialized one, or turns it off,
etc.
This post really reads more like a casual rant than
well-established opinion.
Agreed, but it's on a topic dear to all of us :-)
I'm pretty optimistic about D's future. The negatives in that
rant weren't so bad.
