D 2015/2016 Vision?

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On Thursday, 8 October 2015 at 10:34:44 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> I don't know. I don't like extensive reference counting and 
> don't use weak_ptr. One can usually avoid cycles for resources 
> by design.

The required design is that a resource handle must reside in a 
non-resource object, that object must be reference counted too to 
ensure correctness of resource management, and you can't 
guarantee reliably that those non-resource objects don't form a 
cyclic graph. If you must manually verify the graph and put weak 
references appropriately - what kind of design in that?