Future of D 2.x as stable/bug fix, and what's next for D 3.x

[Ethan]

On Wednesday, 2 September 2020 at 08:40:27 UTC, Russel Winder 
wrote:
> And D without garbage collection would create a pool of ex-D 
> programmers saying "if only D had stuck to it's guns with 
> garbage collection instead of being bullied into a position by 
> C++ and Rust lovers who aren't going to use D anyway."

Commenting on thread to agree with this.

The only thing I really want as far as GC goes in D is more hooks 
in to pointer acquire and release. From there, I can get the 
task-based async collector going that I have in mind. GC is fine, 
but not when it's unconfigurable for my uses.

(I'm generally against library solutions like refcounted 
templates, this can 100% be solved with runtime hooks)