D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary

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On Friday, 4 June 2021 at 19:56:06 UTC, sighoya wrote:
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> This uniformization sounds too good to be true. I think most 
> people think that, but it's simply not true. malloc/free is 
> incompatible to garbage collection.

This is true and even druntime has a malloc/free option for the 
GC. However, its implementation is really bad. Also the 
implementation of the current GC has a lot of room for 
improvements. It is still not appropriate for many embedded 
systems as it requires another layer that steals CPU time and 
code memory.

In the case of Phobos, in order to make as versatile as possible 
it shall not assume any other layer than malloc/free.

> I'm asking myself, even if we don't care about the cons, would 
> that at all be possible with a ~20 years old language with a 
> ~20 years of ecosystem evolution. How many things need to be 
> rewritten?

D certainly has the power to do so but the question is if there 
is any will power in this community. Nothing has happened for 
almost 20 years.