> On Dec 17, 2016, at 1:25 PM, Nabeel Imtiaz via swift-dev > <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I went through the speaker deck of Chris's talk @ IBM (would be great if > video was also available). What got me really excited, among all other > things, was the the manual memory management part. Particularly because it > opens up a lot of avenues for Swift where practically only C++ is used so far. > > My questions are: > > 1) Is it already being developed/drafted? Any documents available? Where can > I get more details on this work in Swift. > 2) If it is (or isn’t) being developed right now, how soon will it begin and > when will it be targeted for release? > 3) Rust has full support for this kind of memory management and also provides > various compile-time analyzers/detectors for memory leaks. Is Swift planning > the same level of support through runtime and compiler?
I am in the process of drafting a proposal which should kick off this discussion. John. > > > Thanks and kudos to the entire team for evolving such an elegant language. > > Nabeel > _______________________________________________ > swift-dev mailing list > swift-dev@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev _______________________________________________ swift-dev mailing list swift-dev@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev
