The "no gc" crowd

[dennis luehring]

Am 09.10.2013 07:23, schrieb PauloPinto:
> Apple dropped the GC and went ARC instead, because they never
> managed to make it work properly.
>
> It was full of corner cases, and the application could crash if
> those cases were not fully taken care of.
>
> Or course the PR message is "We dropped GC because ARC is better"
> and not "We dropped GC because we failed".
>
> Now having said this, of course D needs a better GC as the
> current one doesn't fulfill the needs of potential users of the
> language.

the question is - could ARC be an option for automatic memory managment
in D - so that the compiler generated ARC code when not using gc - but 
using gc-needed code?

or is that a hard to reach goal due to gc-using+arc-using lib combine 
problems?