Smart pointers instead of GC?

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On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 18:19:56 UTC, Matthias Einwag 
wrote:
> In my opinion the new model is even harder. ... <skip>

I also find exact implementation considerably over-engineered but 
I would never propose to just copy stuff to Rust as-is. What I do 
propose to is to acknowledge general principle - build base 
language upon allocation-ignorant primitives that provide 
ownership semantics and move all advanced memory management to 
the library. I sincerely believe that `std .allocator` alone as 
presented by Andrei will give D a huge edge when exploring 
similar approach.