On 9/27/14, 4:27 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
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.

Well put! -- Andrei

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