On Monday, 2 January 2017 at 16:32:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Monday, January 02, 2017 16:07:26 eugene via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On Monday, 2 January 2017 at 15:49:47 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Monday, 2 January 2017 at 15:43:22 UTC, eugene wrote:
>> hello everyone,
>> is there any kind of smart pointers or something in D
>> instead
>> of GC?
>
> It's coming!
is it coming for real, or just for the record?
Walter has been making improvements to @safe so that he can
implement some form of @safe reference counting in the
language. Exactly what that will look like or when it will be
done is an open question (I don't even know how much Walter
knows about that), but work _is_ being done specifically with
language supported ref-counting in mind.
So, is it coming? Yes. Is it coming soon? Maybe. I wouldn't bet
on it, but Walter could surprise us. He could have something by
dconf, or enough stuff may be required to get it working or
enough other important stuff may take up his time that we don't
see anything until next year. I really don't know. As it is,
it's already effectively been delayed by the need to improve
@safe in order to make it work - though the @safe work is
pretty important in its own right.
- Jonathan M Davis
thank you!
