D Postmortem

June 22, 2008 – 8:43 am

It’s been about a year and half since I started actively using D — I’ve written (and maintained) a couple of small commercial applications in it, and taken maintainership over a couple of D related open source projects, but most of my experience with the language comes from using it to write my thesis project [...]

By Tim. | Posted in Blog, Programming |

Garbage Collection: The Joy and the Curse

March 6, 2008 – 10:09 am

Everyone knows the diatribe spouted by certain types of programming evangelists that a good garbage collector can give a program higher memory throughput than one under manual memory management (or some equivalent scheme like reference counting) — not only that but manually managing your own memory is pretty much a waste of good development time; [...]

By Tim. | Posted in Blog, Programming |