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gavinray on Jan 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Memory safety approaches speed up and slow dow...

For other folks who don't write D:

D has GC, no GC ("@nogc" mode), or Ref-Counting (experimentally) with "@safe" and "@live" modes.

pjmlp on Jan 17, 2023 [–]

Which is exactly the point of GC enabled systems programming languages since the Xerox PARC days.

Provide all the required features to write a full OS, while having the convenience of a GC for most of the code.

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