Go: A new system programing language

[Sean Kelly]

Walter Bright Wrote:
> 
> Mixing D's gc world with manually managed memory isn't hard, as long as 
> the following rules are followed:
> 
> 1. don't allocate in one language and expect to free in another
> 2. keep a 'root' to all gc allocated data in the D side of the fence 
> (otherwise it may get collected)

This may actually work in D 2.0.  core.thread has thread_attachThis() to make the D GC aware of an external thread, and gc_malloc() is an extern (C) function.  I haven't tested this extensively however, so if you're keen to try it, please let me know if there are any problems.