On Friday, 23 June 2017 at 08:57:04 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 23 June 2017 at 06:41:26 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
Java, Kotlin, C# are still Jit compiled languages, with the
memory footprint to prove it :)
The memory footprint doesn't matter. Those times are OVER :-).
People said that 30 years ago too... It is still an issue,
though. Not as much as it was, but still relevant.
Programmers seem to be able to suck up whatever RAM is
available on the low-end by adding frameworks, bloated
libraries and runtimes, or just bugs…
I have not done any manual memory management at work for the last
25 years. Did some C++ programming at college and a bit at home
where I had to take care of memory myself. That was it. Till I
retire in 20 years I will also not have been doing any manual
memory management. That kind of stuff only survives in very
special areas where 0.1% of all software developers work.
That being said let me repeat that D needs a decent GC for being
able to create any traction, because those 99.9% of the share are
the far bigger market.
