On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 23:50:29 UTC, Ali wrote:
But D, unlike many other languages, promotes itself as primarily a system programming language
I think that's a mistake too. I'd rebrand it as a "general purpose" programming language. One language you can use everywhere. It worked for node.js and electron...
Though, of course, the GC is NOT a problem for those systems tasks. Even in the niches where it doesn't help, it doesn't actually hurt either. (in fact, the bigger problem we have in those niches are obligatory typeinfo generation and unnecessary bloat in the runtime.... implementation issues that Mike Franklin has made big progress on fixing already. and even those can be worked around, doing a serious system implementation is a bigger task than stubbing out a few functions.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_programming_language
A few of those languages have GCs... and GC languages have been used for all these tasks before. It's not a dealbreaker.
