Smart pointers instead of GC?

[Sean Kelly]

On Saturday, 1 February 2014 at 11:40:37 UTC, Frustrated wrote:
>
> And why does Phobos/runtime require the GC in so many cases when
> it could just use an internal buffer? So much effort has been 
> put
> in to make the GC work that it simply has neglected all those
> that can't use it as it is.

This is the crux of the problem.  It's not so much that D uses 
garbage collection as that Phobos is built in a way that prevents 
the reuse of existing buffers.  It becomes much harder to sell 
the language to a GC averse group if it turns out they can't use 
the standard library as well.  Though I guess Tango is an option 
here as a replacement.