More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 13 May 2014 03:14, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 12 May 2014 at 17:03:41 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>
>> But D is *so close*... and I like it! >_<
>>
>> I have to say that this discussion has certainly left me somewhat
>> intrigued by Rust though.
>> I've never given it a fair go because I find the syntax so distasteful
>> and deterring.
>> I wonder if there's a market for a rust fork that re-skin's the language
>> ;)
>
>
> Right now D has practical benefit of being more stable and library rich. But
> switching to Rust eventually does seem tempting as I find foundations of
> their type system much closer to my beliefs about "good coding practices".
>
> It lacks any good static reflection though. And this stuff is damn addictive
> when you try it of D caliber.

They have a lot more work to do.
There doesn't seem to be a useful windows compiler for a start... >_<