Better branding of -betterC

rinfz cherez at mailbox.org
Mon Nov 16 21:49:25 UTC 2020


On Monday, 16 November 2020 at 19:51:28 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Monday, 16 November 2020 at 19:34:00 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> But that is the whole point, what needs improving is the 
>> current implementation of D's GC, not throwing away everything.
>
> But D first need people to agree on the semantic constraints 
> that can enable this... And that will break some code bases. So 
> there is in essence a cultural resistance to improving the GC.

Why D (and many other languages) would benefit from the 
equivalent of rust's editions (although I'm not sure the D dev 
team can carry the burden of that with the few people that they 
have).


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