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

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 09:19 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> 
[…]
> But there is a difference between 1) having an ecosystem where 
> many libraries and frameworks rely on stop-the-world-GC 2) having 
> the option of using GC in application code (or maybe just in unit 
> tests).

My belief is that you end up with two runtime systems and standard libraries:
one for GC and the other for non-GC. Certainly doable for a community with
lots of people able to contribute, not so viable for a community with strictly
limited person effort available.

> It is possible to market a low-level programming GC strategy, if 
> it is geared towards that specific use scenario.
> 
> Especially if you consider mixed use, e.g. where the application 
> use GC during initialization. But in those cases you might want 
> the gaps on the GC heap to be available for malloc, or run 
> compaction after initialization.
> 
> Or just to have GC available for testing frameworks.

I fear that would be the worst of all worlds.

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