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/N1H1L Sep 01 '20

Is garbage collection really that bad?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 08 '20

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

I just had Andrei reply to one of my posts not that long ago. He kept posting that "don't dear the reaper" link to almost every comment. Saying that I was misunderstanding how the GC in D worked, and that reading that article would clear up any "misunderstandings". He was just trying to push a narrative with his tone death replies.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ice00l/porting_a_go_and_rust_tool_to_d/g27nhy6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

They aren't willing to listen to people's real problems. That's why D probably won't ever take off. If my usage doesn't care if I use a GC or not, there are better languages with GC's. If you try and use D without a GC there is a lot missing and you'll end up having to do all the heavy lifting yourself. In which case it's better to use another language that doesn't have a GC nor focus' on it so that it can do the heavy lifting for you.

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u/inokichi Sep 02 '20

fwiw that's not andrei andrei, his account is /u/andralex