GC for noobs

[Regan Heath]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:29:55 -0000, Szymon Gatner <noemail at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 18:06:58 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 14:52:00 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 14:42:43 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>>> There is also one complex and feature-reach implementation of  
>>>> uniqueness concept by Sonke Ludwig :  
>>>> https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/blob/master/source/vibe/core/concurrency.d#L281  
>>>> (Isolated!T)
>>>>
>>>> Priceless for message passing concurrency.
>>>
>>> Tbh it only looks worse and worse to me :(
>>>
>>> Another example of code necessary to overcome language limitations.
>>
>> Or, alternatively:
>>
>> A language flexible enough to facilitate library solutions for problems  
>> that would normally require explicit language support.
>
> I dig flexibility, I really do, and I appreciate D's features that  
> enable that, but in case of such basic thing as a resource management, I  
> just want things to work without surprises by default.

Amen.  (Not used religiously)

I have been around D for a long time, and I have noticed a growing trend  
of solving problems with "clever" but complicated library solutions when  
in *some* cases a simpler built-in solution was possible.  I realise  
Walter's time is precious and I realise that adding complexity to the  
language itself is something to be generally avoided, but I think  
sometimes we make the wrong choice.

R

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