Status of @nogc with the runtime

[Peter Campbell]

On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 19:32:50 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 18:03:44 UTC, Peter Campbell 
> wrote:
>
>> My understanding from the vision documents and what Andrei 
>> mentioned at his DConf presentations is that the runtime 
>> itself will be modified to not rely on the GC, allowing for 
>> you to continue using features such as associative arrays and 
>> array concatenation, but without requiring the garbage 
>> collector. Is my understanding correct? If so is work still 
>> being done to make this happen
>
> Andrei recently said something about an announcement coming, 
> but I don't have any details. 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7vw0gj/vanquish_forever_these_bugs_that_blasted_your/dtwb6fv/

What a tease, but that sounds promising :)