Worse is better?

[Chris Williams via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 10 October 2014 at 21:54:32 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> (a) gives users full control over how every function 
> allocates/manages memory (control).
> (b) makes the implementation of those functions easy (simple).
> (c) makes it easy to compose functions with different 
> management policies (expressive).

Probably the method would be to make garbage management an aspect 
of the language itself, like how Go handles parallel processing 
at the compiler level. Developers write everything like it's all 
magically garbage collected, with maybe a few metatags/keywords 
sprinkled around, and then tells the compiler what the default 
garbage collection should be, and the garbage collector goes in 
and rewrites code according to different strategies, including an 
option for static-analysis based collection like Mercury.

D could potentially be moved that direction, but I would imagine 
that adding reference versions of structs would be necessary 
first, so that pointers became less prevalent, and pointers only 
allowed in blocks marked dangerous where the programmer has to 
perform any management himself.