Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/17/14, 9:30 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> Ironically, strings have been probably least of my GC-related issues
> with D so far - hard to evaluate applicability of this proposal because
> of that. What are typical use cases for such solution? (not questioning
> its importance, just being curious)

Simplest is "I want to use D without a GC and suddenly the string 
support has fallen down to bear claws and silex stones."

RCString should be a transparent (or at least near-transparent) 
replacement for string in GC-less environments.


Andrei