On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 19:14:06 UTC, Right wrote:
I'm rather fond of RAII, I find that I rarely every need
shared semantics.
I use a custom object model that allows for weak_ptrs to
unique_ptrs which I think removes some cases where people might
otherwise be inclined to use shared_ptr.
Shared semantics are so rare in fact I would say I hardly use
it at all, I go for weeks of coding without creating a shared
type, not because I'm trying to do so, but because it just
isn't necessary.
Which is why GC seems like such a waste, given my experience
in C++, where I hardly need shared memory, I see little use for
a GC(or even ARC etc), all it will do is decrease program
performance, make deterministic destruction impossible, and
prevent automatic cleanup of none memory resources.
Rust seems to have caught on to what C++ has accomplished here.
Oh, and Unreal? Yes they have a GC type "UObject", I worked on
Unreal at one point, my impression was that this originated
back with the original Unreal(circa 1998?), likely caused by
the popularity of Java at the time. As for the Unreal code
base? Pass on that.
UEngine has been rewritten from scratch.
UnrealScript doesn't even exist anymore.
It is the new UEngine that depends on GC, and we're talking C++,
not UnrealScript here (again, UnrealScript is gone).
