On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 01:09:25 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 01:31:32AM +0200, SomeDude wrote:
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The other thing that would make it attractive among the C++
developers, would be the development of a lightweight, high
performance, minimal library that doesn't use the GC at all.
Ideally,
it would be compatible with Phobos. I bet if such a library
existed,
flocks of C++ developers would suddenly switch to D.
I know the current GC leaves much room for improvement, but
what's the
hangup about the GC anyway? If -- and yes this is a very big if
-- the
GC has real-time guarantees, would that make it more palatable
to C++
devs? Or is it just because they have trouble with the idea of
having a
GC in the first place?
T
Real time guarantees on a GC is not something we are going to
offer anytime soon anyway. While a minimal library, loosely based
on the C standard library, with some more bells and whistles that
could be borrowed from Phobos, this is a goal that is achievable
in a foreseeable future. And both game developers and embedded
programmers would be interested.
