Tasks, actors and garbage collection

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 20 April 2021 at 16:45:38 UTC, russhy wrote:
> C++ could have went with a GC, they decided to go against and 
> encourage the use of smart pointers
>
> That was smart, actually

Kind of, there are C++/CLI, C++/CX, C++ Builder and what many 
keep forgeting when talking about game developers and tracing GC, 
Unreal C++.

Also in regards to Objective-C and Swift, Objective-C did went 
with a tracing GC, the pivot into RC as compiler assisted help 
for Cocoa retain/release patterns, only happend due to C's memory 
model borking the whole idea.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/GarbageCollection/Introduction.html

Swift naturally needed to use the same model, otherwise a 
translation layer like .NET RCW for COM would be needed had they 
gone with tracing GC.