My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[Imperatorn]

On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 19:02:45 UTC, Araq wrote:
> On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 17:41:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 15:46:15 UTC, Tejas wrote:
>>> [...]
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>> It is an old idea that goes back to systems like Mesa/Cedar in 
>> the early 1980's.
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>> https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xeroxparctddingGarbageCollectionandRuntimeTypestoa_1765837
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>> Used to create this workstation OS at Xerox PARC,
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>> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4
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> Mesa/Cedar used deferred reference counting plus a cycle 
> collector, that's Nim's old default GC, ORC is completely 
> different... But hey, what do I know, I only implemented both.

Love your work on Nim btw

/Secret fan