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[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 21:50:58 UTC, Igor wrote:
> I think the leaders are in over their heads. They have no real 
> vision or plan to make D the language it can be. They are 
> satisfied with their niche in the programming world.

The vision statement says this:

«Safety is a primary concern of all work, especially work 
involving early memory reclamation (below). Our main challenge 
for H1 2016 is to create a combination of language and library 
support for @safe reference counting. We would also hopefully 
support ownership patterns such as uniqueness with borrowing.»

And this:

«"No GC" is a primary concern going forward for the standard 
library and client code.
We need good language+library support and robust idioms to follow 
for good no-GC code.»

These are very weak statements, and there are no estimates. So 
what does it mean? Planning in H1, design in H2, implementation 
after that and production ready in 2-10 years? If so, why put it 
in H1? What is the ETA?

:-/


> If I said this stuff in North Korea I'd be hung!

There is quite a bit of whipping and screaming around here, but I 
have yet to see a hanging.