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minus-squareFizzyOrange@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 hours agoD didn’t catch on for many good reasons… And it never will. Zig has way more momentum (and it better!) as a “better C”, and obviously the main draw of Rust is memory safety without GC which D doesn’t have.
minus-squareZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoD has a way for GC free operation, the easiest way is by using it in BetterC mode. The harder way is writing your own runtime without a GC.
D didn’t catch on for many good reasons… And it never will. Zig has way more momentum (and it better!) as a “better C”, and obviously the main draw of Rust is memory safety without GC which D doesn’t have.
D has a way for GC free operation, the easiest way is by using it in BetterC mode. The harder way is writing your own runtime without a GC.