mecca

> D itself looked and still looks very interesting to me, as it can be […] without having insanely ugly syntax such as c++ or rust (inb4 rUsT iS VeRy ReADaBlE). I did a quick dive into aforementioned stdlib only to stumble upon something I would rather prefer any Rust/C++ version over: https://github.com/weka-io/mecca/blob/f5dc6d9f71983ea7b852ad... Some might want to exempt standard library from the "readable code" argument, but I'd argue that readability argument was lost the moment language designers allowed anyone to write things like `whatisthis!"whatever"({t.__ctor(args);})` (regardless of best practices that regular devs might unanimously follow). You can't just say that "A is bad 'cause it allows unreadable code" and follow that with "nobody's doing bad things in B therefore it's much better".

You can avoid GC with a non-GC standard library that they actually wrote: https://github.com/weka-io/mecca

Weka has recently open-sourced their no-GC library Mecca: https://github.com/weka-io/mecca Here is Shachar Shemesh's introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNWRgEHxOhc&feature=youtu.be...