New pointer type for GC

Manu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat May 31 06:44:12 PDT 2014


On 29 May 2014 03:35, via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 17:27:20 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>
>> Adding GC pointer type does not enable anything that you can't do write
>> now for high-level applications and does not help at all low-level
>> applications. It is niche solution.
>
>
> A niche solution is fine by me. Etienne has expressed interest in creating a
> D to asm.js converter. Now, maybe the current D is not suitable for that,
> but perhaps a dialect of D would be. I could back that. That makes two who
> are interested. Add 2-3 more people and we could have a train going to a
> station that is nicheā€¦ but productive.

I would switch to a D fork in an instant if it satisfied my requirements...



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