My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 12:22:05 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> This is why D community should take care when celebrating 
> designs in other languages like Objective-C and Swift's ARC.

Well, an Apple engineer did point out in this forum that one 
could achieve better performance than Objective-C ARC, because of 
the historic constraints Objective-C had to deal with.

Anyway, I am in favour of ARC for shared and local GC with actors 
for non-shared. I think that model fits well with most D users 
expect and also where hardware is heading.

It would also set D apart from the other alternatives.

> So beware when discussing what D should adopt from other 
> languages, usually there is more to the whole story than just 
> RC vs tracing GC.

D should not try to become another language. It must 
differentiate itself by looking at the open positions in the 
design space.

E.g. I am a bit torn by C++ compatibility. Yes, it is good for 
indie game developers, but can also be very limiting. Very 
difficult choice to make.