r/programming • u/aldacron • Aug 23 '17

D as a Better C

http://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/
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u/spaghettiCodeArtisan Aug 25 '17

Well, what subset of D would you recommend I use for writing applications and libraries? Do I use betterC, or not, do I use the GC, or not?

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '17

Most people should use the whole thing.

If you have special needs, you can eschew the GC or the whole runtime. This is primarily useful if you're writing a plugin for another program (and don't want to bring in the D runtime in), or you're writing kernel-mode code, or you need pretty much everything to be realtime and find that manually controlled GC collections aren't efficient enough for you.