Plan for D

[Ola Fosheim Grostad]

On Friday, 21 May 2021 at 07:07:19 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> I guess everyone over here will keep talking in circles about 
> memory management.
>
> Meanwhile TinyGo, CircuitPyhton, Meadow, Astrobe, MakeCode. 
> microEJ just keep increasing their market share, while D keeps 
> its soul search for the golden solution to replace GC.

What do you propose that D should do?

I am not in a position to do anything more than propose ideas 
that can be developed into something that both satisfies the high 
level D programmers and the low level programmers and try to 
build some common ground. Building common ground takes time and 
repeated communication. You need to consider many proposals and 
evolve them to get to a good solution.

Nim seems to have considered and tested several options before 
landing on ARC, that is the right approach. Don't settle for 
anything before you have explored the options.

In my opinion a task based GC + shared RC should satisfy the 
needs of both groups and most single threaded code would not need 
many changes.