On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 22:25:37 UTC, Chris wrote:
after Java. And D was invented when GC was expected by many people.
The GC was by far the most criticised feature of D...
GC was a big selling point. Every Java book went on about how
Err... no, the big selling point that gave Java traction was portability and Java being marketed as designed for the internet and web. GC languages were already available and in use, but the JVM/.NET made it difficult for commercial development platforms. Portability and Microsoft's dominance was a big issue back then.
blah ... Apple even added GC to Objective-C to appease the GC crowd.
Apple removed the GC rather quickly for the same reasons that makes GC a bad choice for D. And replaced it with automatic reference counting.
