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

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/25/2014 12:10 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>  > I think Microsoft's C++/CLI tried that mixed pointer approach, and it was a
> disaster. I don't have personal knowledge of this.
> C++ doesn't have any notion of borrowing. Scope can (will?) fix a whole lot of
> existing problems, and also allow RC -> raw pointers work nicely.

Consider that people complain a lot about annotations. See the other thread. 
Adding the scope annotations everywhere is a LOT of annotations. Do you think 
people will be happy with that? I don't.

I remember reading a paper about someone adding pointer annotations to Java. It 
was a technical success, and a usability failure. People just couldn't be 
bothered to add the annotations.