On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:10:31 -0400, Walter Bright
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 4/22/2014 11:38 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Generally, when investing a lot of time and energy into something, you
want to
make sure the market is there first...
Ironic, considering that nobody but me believed there was a market for D
before it existed :-)
Sure but I'm not prepared to generate a new language over this. If you
won't accept it, there's no point in making it.
In other words, YOU are the market ;)
*disclaimer* I am in no shape to actually make such a proposal/change, and
probably it would come out horribly if I tried, implementation-wise. I
simply am trying to convince you that it would be a valuable addition to D
so others may see an opportunity there.
I do believe there is a market for ARC in D. What I don't believe are
the various claims about how insignificant its costs are, and I'm not so
willing to give up on memory safety.
You don't have to. Just make ARC not @safe.
-Steve
