If I had my way

[Hans Uhlig]

On 12/11/2011 4:13 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 10.12.2011 21:35, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
>> On 12/10/11 2:22 PM, maarten van damme wrote:
>>> Just for fun I
>>> wanted to create a program as little as possible, compiled without
>>> garbage collector/phobos/... and it turned out that compiling without
>>> garbage collector is pretty much impossible (memory leaks all around the
>>> place in druntime). dynamic linking for the d standard library would be
>>> a great new option for a dmd release in the future :).
>>
>> Using D without GC is an interesting direction, and dynamic linking
>> should be available relatively soon.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> As a long time beliver in systems programming languages with GC support
> (Modula-3, Oberon, Sing#, ...), I think allowing this in D is the wrong
> direction.
>
> Sure provinding APIs to control GC behavior makes sense, but not turn it
> off, we already have enough languages to do systems programming without GC.

If you are doing Embedded Systems programming Dynamic memory and GC are 
pretty much a no no. Perhaps the compiler needs a No GC check to make 
sure when flaged that no GC/GC Managed memory is used. This would 
disable soem features but allow for this need.