My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[Tejas]

On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 15:37:04 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 15:20:06 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>> [...]
>
> That would be affine/linear types, the best ergonomics for them 
> is to combine a tracing GC, with such types.
>
> Instead of having them all around the program, only make use of 
> them when performance requirements so demand them.
>
> This is the approach being taken by Swift, Haskell, OCaml, and 
> even D with @life.
>
> It would be interesting to see @life + GC settle all 
> discussions on D's approach to memory management, but somehow I 
> feel it won't happen.

What do you think about Nim's ARC + GC solution? They call it ORC 
:
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/15/introduction-to-arc-orc-in-nim.html