Is it an official position or just a blog post / proposal from
one of developers?
Anyway, given the recent findings by Adam, D is not _that_ far
away here. Add configurable global allocators, finally implement
"scope", move GC to library and reduce runtime a bit - and result
may be pretty awesome. Hardest part is still "global allocator"
and assumptions compiler does about runtime.
However, the fact that Rust developers already think about this
and in D community most real attention to such stuff only came
together with Manu gives them some advantage.
On Monday, 3 June 2013 at 09:10:14 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Even as GC fanboy, I have to admit that reference counting is
in trend for system languages.
Rust developers are thinking to move GC support to the language
library while keeping reference counting as the main way to
deal with memory management.
http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/removing-garbage-collection-from-the-rust-language/
Quite in sync with the latest discussions going on.
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Paulo
