Re: Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/21/2015 4:43 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
D's GC is terrible, and after 6 years hanging out in this place, I
have seen precisely zero development on the GC front. Nobody can even
imagine, let alone successfully implement a GC that covers realtime
use requirements.

Nobody thinks GC is suitable for hard realtime.


On the other hand, if 'scope' is implemented well, D may have some of
the best tools in town for quality ARC implementation. There is a
visible way forward for quality RC in D, and I think we could do
better than Apple.

With 'return ref', which is now implemented, you can create a memory safe 
RefCounted type. However, nobody has bothered. Are you up for it? :-)