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D’s Forty-Year Identity Crisis

Garbage collection, manual memory management, and metaprogramming were all offered as options rather than defaults. That flexibility was the entire pitch, and it is also the reason D never became what it was clearly capable of being.

D’s Forty-Year Identity Crisis

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Garbage collection, manual memory management, and metaprogramming were all offered as options rather than defaults.

That flexibility was the entire pitch, and it is also the reason D never became what it was clearly capable of being.

D is older than Go, older than Rust, older than Swift and Kotlin.

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Garbage collection, manual memory management, and metaprogramming were all offered as options rather than defaults. That flexibility was the entire pitch, and it is also the reason D never became what it was clearly capable of being. D is older than Go, older than Rust, older than Swift and Kotlin.

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D is older than Go, older than Rust, older than Swift and Kotlin.

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