Future of memory management in D

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Wednesday, 17 November 2021 at 23:01:44 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> That isn't not what happened, people did demand @nogc back 
> before it existed and considered it necessary. (I was a sceptic 
> and am now an avid user of @nogc).


To give my statement some context, this is a quote from a [2014 
posting I 
made](https://forum.dlang.org/post/srqejkdljjhxiwmjbqzb@forum.dlang.org):

>I got very happy when Walter announced "@nogc" and his intent to 
>create a "better C" switch on the compiler.

>I felt this was a nice change of direction, but I also feel that 
>this direction has stagnated and taken a turn for the worse with 
>the ref-counting focus… Phobos is too much of a 
>scripting-language library to me, too much like Tango, and 
>hacking in ref counting makes it even more so.

DIP60 was created on 2014-4-15, shortly after I had engaged in 
some criticism of the GC (IIRC). I saw DIP60 as a response to 
that, but when I search the forums I see that there have been 
suggestions of various kinds several years prior to this.

Now, please also understand that my view of RC/GC in D has 
changed since then.