Remember the Vasa! by Bjarne Stroustrup

[Tony]

On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 20:19:09 UTC, bachmeier wrote:

> I don't think it's difficult to do that yourself. There's no 
> need to have a formal split. One example is that it's really 
> nice to have the GC available for part of the program and avoid 
> it for another part. @nogc gives you a guarantee. Different 
> variants of the language are a special case of this that is 
> equivalent to annotating the entire program to restrict 
> behavior. That's rarely desirable.

What would be an example of a type of application (or maybe that 
should be "which type of domain" or "which type of developer") 
where you would want part of it to do garbage collection and the 
rest of it do not do garbage collection?