Plan for D

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 21 May 2021 at 07:29:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote:
> On Friday, 21 May 2021 at 07:07:19 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> [...]
>
> 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.

Do like those projects, the powers at the steering wheel should 
stick with the original design and push it no matter what, 
instead of switching direction every couple of years and never 
finishing it.