On Friday, 1 January 2021 at 16:23:45 UTC, SealabJaster wrote:
Slightly off but also on topic but, has there been any general
consensus yet around standard pointer types (e.g. shared_ptr)
and standard allocator-aware data structures, or just in
general any discussions around non-GC memory management as part
of Phobos/core parts of D outside of "use/write a library"?
I don't know anything about any official positions other than the
fact that Walter dislikes having more than one pointer type and
is working on some kind of "liveness" verification for a C-style
free/malloc regime, which is rather rare in other languages these
days. Not really sure how that fits with modern code bases.
Isn't there some work on move-semantics to make C++ interfacing
better? But shared_ptr is only for C++ interop, perhaps? Or is it
meant for D-code?
To me it looks like things are a bit up-in-the-air at the moment.
And well, having many options that are incompatible would not be
good for library interop, so choices have to be made to avoid
"tower of Babel".
*shrugs*
