On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 09:33:22 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
No that would be stupid to make that the default as it is unsafe.
When would you estimate that D could have a production ready default memory managment solution (without GC)?
When people look at a language they don't ask themselves what is possible, but what the main features are and how convenient it looks.
So from a (C/C++) marketing point of view it is better to send the message "excellent memory management with optional GC" than "GC backed memory with optional..."