On Saturday, 29 November 2014 at 11:56:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
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I got very happy when Walter announced "@nogc" and his intent
to create a "better C" switch on the compiler.
I felt this was a nice change of direction, but I also feel
that this direction has stagnated and taken a turn for the
worse with the ref-counting focus… Phobos is too much of a
scripting-language library to me, too much like Tango, and
hacking in ref counting makes it even more so.
To me, a "better C" would have a minimal runtime, a tight
minimalistic standard library and very simple builtin ownership
semantics (uniqe_ptr). Then a set of supporting libraries that
are hardware-optimized (with varying degree of portability).
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agree.
