Smart pointers instead of GC?

[Francesco Cattoglio]

On Sunday, 2 February 2014 at 16:55:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> 1. Add @nullable and provide a -nullable compiler flag to 
> verify it. The attribute is inferred locally and for white-box 
> functions (lambdas, templates), and required as annotation 
> otherwise. References not annotated with @nullable are 
> statically enforced to never be null.
>
> 2. Work on Phobos to see what can be done about avoiding 
> unnecessary allocation. Most likely we'll need to also add a 
> @nogc flag.
>
> 3. Work on adding tracing capabilities to allocators and see 
> how to integrate them with the language and Phobos.
>
> 4. Work on the core language and druntime to see how to 
> seamlessly accommodate alternate GC mechanisms such as 
> reference counting.

That looks nice, but one thing is missing:

5. Fix @property already :P

What is the last status about properties? As far as I understand 
pulls are in place and might get pick up in 2.066, right?