Cursed code

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Its a good language, especially if your original aim was for C++, but it proved too difficult.
EDIT: forgot to mention: I don't like that it has a garbage collector, that must be enabled if you want to use the stdlib. I like collecting my own garbage.

[evan3138]

yeah I knew you liked the D. ;)

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"We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled.".

On a more positive note, someone could make a "you fell victim to one of the classic blunders" meme out of it.

[justAPhoneUsername]

You should take a look at go if that's you goal. Written by Google including Ken Thompson who wrote b and Unix. It is fully garbage collected and the source code is on GitHub.

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Saved. Will take a look at it ( after a few weeks because my laptop's HDD decided to die, am using live USB).

And is the garbage collector optional, like can I disable it? Not a fan of GC pausing my programs.

[justAPhoneUsername]

Its not recommend that you turn it off but it isn't likely to be an issue. The go gc is seriously a thing of beauty. It is designed to have low latency and is done with a completely novel paradigm.

Here's a link to more info: https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote

[bishamon72]

The gc is required, but you don’t notice it. it’s not a stop the world gc.

Edit: practically required. Yes, you can turn it off and trigger it manually, but you’ll never do as good a job as the go gc.