What's the go with the GC these days?

[Timon Gehr]

On 06.01.19 01:51, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> 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

I'd like opHeadMutable too, but it certainly doesn't do the same thing.