On Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at 07:20:20 UTC, Manu wrote:
Shared is uninteresting and mostly useless as spec-ed, everyone
knows this.
Interaction with shared via barely-controlled blunt casting in
@trusted blocks is feeble and boring. It doesn't really give us
anything in practice that we don't have in C++. It's an
uninspired
design.
+1
I'm pretty sure it's great in theory, in practice it's another
invasive type constructor, and not a particular well-understood
or easy to deal with one.
The fact that this _type constructor_ finds its way into
_identifiers_ create some concern:
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/656798f2b385437c239246b59e0433148190938c/std/experimental/allocator/package.d#L642
