On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 04:50:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/8/2014 9:12 PM, Mike wrote:
From what I've observed, I don't think users are complaining
that D doesn't do
ref counting.
The recurrent observation is "I use C++/Rust/Whatever because
they do ref counting, and D uses GC. Therefore I cannot use D."
ARC has been extensively studied and debated at great length
for D. It is not going to work for D. Nobody has figured out a
way to make it work for D. Let's move on to what will work.
Agreed. I'm just trying to clarify the problem. I believe ARC
and a reference counted library type are quite different
solutions to different problems. Adding a ref counted library
type, will likely not stop the clamoring.
RefCounted can't be used with D's built-in types, right?
The question doesn't make sense. What is a ref counted int?
I meant exceptions, dynamic arrays, etc... that are instantiated
in the D runtime and expect an automatic memory manager of some
type to exist. I don't see how one can use a reference counted
library type like RefCounted for these. Feel free to correct me,
if I'm wrong.
Mike
