On Monday, 8 February 2016 at 17:15:11 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
Maybe we could. But it's never going to happen. Even if
Walter weren't fundamentally opposed to multiple pointer types
in D, it wouldn't happen.
You asked about things that prevent improvement, right? Here's
the big one, and a major point of friction in the community:
Walter and Andrei refuse to break existing code in pursuit of
changes that substantially improve the language. (Never mind
that code tends to break anyway.)
You are of course right, but it isn't an absolute. Nothing
prevents someone to restrict a D compiler in such a way that you
can get faster GC.
C++ compilers have lots of optional warnings/errors, so it is
quite possible. But I suppose those that want it would rather use
Go, C# or some other GC language than can do ahead of time
compilation.
