Rust style memory management

welkam via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Sep 12 16:21:45 PDT 2015


On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 20:17:04 UTC, Freddy wrote:
> So I saw this video: 
> https://air.mozilla.org/guaranteeing-memory-safety-in-rust/ and 
> was amazed. Is there any way we can implement this in D? What 
> language extensions would be required?
>
> My idea on implement this would be to add 3 new pointer (and 
> array) types : [owned,shared immutable,borrow mutable] and 
> depend on casting raw pointers to the new types.
>
> Thoughts?


There is something in std.typecons
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_typecons.html

Never tried and didnt get into details, but sounds something like 
rust


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