What's the go with the GC these days?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2019-01-06 04:42, Walter Bright wrote:

>  > Where's the ARC stuff? What happened to opAddRef/opRelease?
> 
> Andrei, Razvan, and I have decided that the most pragmatic way forward 
> to support reference counting is to support copy constructors ala C++. 
> C++ is clearly successful with this approach, and Andrei/Razvan 
> concluded that D's postblit just doesn't cut it. Razvan has a proposal 
> for copy constructors, and an implementation PR that has fallen a bit 
> behind his latest proposal.

Razvan has confirmed that copy constructors are only for structs [1]. 
The ARC (opAddRef/opRelease) proposal was for classes as well. So copy 
constructors are not a substitute as defined now.

[1] https://forum.dlang.org/post/hqqszotxfwauczupjmez@forum.dlang.org

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/Jacob Carlborg