What's the go with the GC these days?

Nicholas Wilson iamthewilsonator at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 5 23:51:53 UTC 2019


On Saturday, 5 January 2019 at 22:42:11 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 January 2019 at 22:05:19 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> Is progress possible, or is the hard reality that the language 
>> is just designed such to be resistant to a quality GC, while 
>> the ecosystem sadly tends to rely on it?
>>
>> Where's the ARC stuff? What happened to opAddRef/opRelease?
>
> As per Andrei's talk at the last Dconf, ref counting requires 
> __mutable to play nicely with const and immutable.

I'd rather have opHeadMutable than __mutable, does the same thing 
but doesn't subvert  the type system


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