SerpentOS departs from Dlang

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 17/09/2023 12:25 AM, sighoya wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 September 2023 at 10:22:31 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole
> wrote:
>>
>> The approach that I think will work well for us is to support 
>> reference counting on structs & classes, and make them not adhere to 
>> DIP1000.
> 
> Does that mean you are against dip1000 or do you want both?

Basically DIP1000 handles the final leg of lifetime management, rather 
than managing the actual ownership of memory. It comes into play after 
you borrow from a container.

>> I will be doing the DIP for RC due to its cost of it and the fact that 
>> modern backends do understand it and can make it cheaper.
> 
> Will it be automated reference counting with a special type of GC doing 
> the job or a local RC container?

Its basically what we do now with copy constructors + destructors, but 
inside dedicated methods.

Although I do want a write barrier on each struct/class, to allow for 
cyclic handling especially for classes.