Re: Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/17/14, 9:30 AM, Dicebot wrote:
Ironically, strings have been probably least of my GC-related issues
with D so far - hard to evaluate applicability of this proposal because
of that. What are typical use cases for such solution? (not questioning
its importance, just being curious)

Simplest is "I want to use D without a GC and suddenly the string 
support has fallen down to bear claws and silex stones."

RCString should be a transparent (or at least near-transparent) 
replacement for string in GC-less environments.


Andrei