I'd say the opposite. I wouldn't say it's an issue, but personally I wish D didn't offer alternative memory management options. Other languages like Go or C# do

I'd say the opposite. I wouldn't say it's an issue, but personally I wish D didn't offer alternative memory management options. Other languages like Go or C# don't even give you a choice, so people just accept it and move on. But every discussion on D always turns into the "evil GC" discussion. I use a lot of D and was never bothered by the GC and I find it easier to work with than manual memory management. I guess I could live with automatic refcounting too but I doubt it could be integrated well into the language at this point.