On Wednesday, 9 October 2013 at 23:37:53 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote:
In an ideal world, we'd be able to choose between using a GC or using ARC when building our program. A compiler flag could do the trick. But that becomes messy when libraries (static and dynamic) get involved as they all have to agree on the same codegen to work together. Adding something to mangling that would cause link errors in case of mismatch might be good enough to prevent accidents though.
ObjC guys used to think that. It turns out it is a really bad idea.
