Just had an unfortunate exchange on Twitter
https://twitter.com/bitshifternz/status/515998608009601024
Him: "isn't D garbage collected? That would make it a non-starter
for me."
Me: "it's optional. malloc/free are available and we'll have
allocators soon that can hook into std lib."
Him: "if that's the case the D website does a poor job of
spelling it out. Nothing in FAQ or here
http://dlang.org/garbage.html";
Him: ""D is a fully garbage collected language" doesn't sound
very optional!"
Him: "now I'm going to have to look at D properly!"
I've now filed a bug.
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13547
I've literally had 3 or 4 conversations in just the past few
days, both online and in person with people that believe D is
only garbage collected. We have to fix this perception. It's
literally scaring people away from even looking at anything else
the language has to offer.
