Phobos - breaking existing code

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On Saturday, 29 November 2014 at 11:56:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
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> I got very happy when Walter announced "@nogc" and his intent 
> to create a "better C" switch on the compiler.
>
> I felt this was a nice change of direction, but I also feel 
> that this direction has stagnated and taken a turn for the 
> worse with the ref-counting focus… Phobos is too much of a 
> scripting-language library to me, too much like Tango, and 
> hacking in ref counting makes it even more so.
>
> To me, a "better C" would have a minimal runtime, a tight 
> minimalistic standard library and very simple builtin ownership 
> semantics (uniqe_ptr). Then a set of supporting libraries that 
> are hardware-optimized (with varying degree of portability).
>
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agree.