On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 23:27:25 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 15:55:09 UTC, JN wrote:
Citation needed on how garbage collection has been a smashing
success based on its merits rather than the merits of the
languages that use garbage collection.
Who cares? Even if the success isn't because of GC per se, the
ubiquity of it in the real world means it certainly isn't a
deal breaker.
But D, unlike many other languages, promotes itself as primarily
a system programming language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_programming_language
So I would say yes, D's success does depend in a very large part
on the Garbage Collector, and managing a system resources
