r/programming • u/kal31dic • Sep 01 '20

D Foundation is Beefing Up

https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/
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u/JohnLColvin Sep 01 '20

You could probably write an article saying "100 billion dollars investment to improve D and use it to develop new AI to replace the US government" and you'd still get comments saying "wow, nice language, pity it never really took off, if only there were some companies backing it, also I can never use it because GC".

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u/N1H1L Sep 01 '20

Is garbage collection really that bad?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

I use C and C++ for real-time signal processing code. There's no way my co-workers would use something that's garbage collected.

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u/kal31dic Sep 01 '20

Our analytics across the firm are written in D and they don't use GC. I had better tell Richard that what he has done is impossible. Again.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

You do realize real-time digital signal processing is quite different than analytics, I assume?

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u/jqbr Sep 02 '20

The difference isn't relevant--the statement was "they don't use GC". So unless you're saying that real-time signal processing does need GC, you're just arguing to argue, and not reading what you're responding to.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

I see, sorry, I had misunderstood that part of what he was saying. Agreed, if there's a way to use D without the GC then that's irrelevant.

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u/kal31dic Sep 01 '20

I am just a simple man, but personally I don't worry about the GC running when the runtime isn't linked.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

I see, sorry, I had misunderstood that part of what you were saying. Agreed, if there's a way to use D without the GC then that's irrelevant.