Microsoft working on new systems language

[Adam Wilson]

On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:45:50 -0800, Adam D. Ruppe  
<destructionator at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 31 December 2013 at 00:21:21 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> Maybe I misunderstand, but isn't the purpose of std.allocator to set up  
>> allocators that new can call into?
>
> No, it'll be a standard library interface.
>
> I really think the built-in new should be discouraged - it has a lot of  
> disadvantages over using a library setup, and not many advantages.

Kind of like unique_ptr/shared_ptr but better. IIRC the GC is supposed to  
be just another allocator, which is fine by me and won't be unfamiliar to  
C++ guys. As a note though. Regular new is what the Java/C# guys will be  
used, they don't use allocators routinely.

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