Deterministic Memory Management With Standard Library Progress

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 6 March 2017 at 17:54:25 UTC, Anthony wrote:
> Would it be possible/practical to use another language's code 
> within a  D program, like Rust for example, when deterministic 
> memory management is necessary? It feels like this would be 
> easier then finagling with D to get a similar outcome.

Yes. You can call Rust code from C:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ffi.html#calling-rust-code-from-c
You can do the same to call it from D. I have never done it, but 
I did call Rust from Ruby at one point.

> Does the GC run regardless of if it's used? Someone alluded to 
> this earlier, but I just wanted clarity. If I write nogc code, 
> will the GC just stand by idly? Or, is there an option to 
> completely turn it off?

If you don't allocate with the GC, the GC doesn't run. Code 
marked @nogc is guaranteed not to cause the GC to run. You can 
turn the GC off using GC.disable, but there are extreme cases in 
which it can still run.