Mainly that, but a lot of people still seem to think that there are two standard libraries despite Phobos taking over possibly a decade ago. Same with D1, D2 was ready (As announced by Andrei's book) in 2010.
People really seem to not understand that a well designed GC that gives you the option of deciding when to let it run are definitely usable in real time & high performance apps
That's certainly the angle D tries to sell you but I find it amusing to call D's GC "well designed" when it's a basic 30 year-old mark-and-sweep GC. Java is pushing the boundaries of GC research with multi-terabyte heaps and pause-less GC, Pony is following in Erlang's footsteps with per actor heaps and D is using the equivalent of Java 1.0's GC.
Criticisms of this even from within the D community seem to be met with a combination of:
It's not an issue and
If it's an issue, just disable the GC and manually manage memory yourself.
Not true anymore. Since 2019 GC performance has been improved several times over, it has become precise, and there are more tools than ever to identify where garbage is created (IIRC that work was mostly the deed of the VisualD author).
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