When is the next article in the GC series?

aberba karabutaworld at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 09:19:27 UTC 2020


On Friday, 3 July 2020 at 03:39:52 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 July 2020 at 22:03:46 UTC, Ogi wrote:
>> The GC series[1] on D blog is great, but there’s still one 
>> piece missing: heap-allocated class instances.
>>
>> [1] https://dlang.org/blog/the-gc-series/
>
> I held off for a long time because I found the conflation of 
> finalization and destruction embarrassing to advertise, but 
> leaving it out of the article would have been wrong. Now that 
> we've got GC.inFinalizer, I can move forward. It's just a 
> matter of making the time for it. I have so many things going 
> on I keep putting it off, but it won't be much longer.

Sometimes making people aware of the dark side is also important. 
So a blog post should strike a balance between the two...more 
transparency.

But I guess in your you kind of were waiting for the bus 
GC.inFinalizer


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