My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Saturday, 20 November 2021 at 01:59:07 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
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> On 20/11/2021 2:21 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> On Saturday, 20 November 2021 at 00:55:36 UTC, rikki 
>> cattermole wrote:
>>> For system resources, I think this is the best way forward. 
>>> Due to the fact that threads actually matter here, and you 
>>> really need to "free" resources where they were allocated. 
>>> But also allow references to leak to other threads.
>> 
>> Yes. Regardless, ARC requires more compiler restructuring.
>
> To me ARC is just what we have now with a couple of compiler 
> hooks. So it shouldn't need restructuring for this.

I had an idea for a LLVM hack, but Apple ARC engineers pointed 
out that there were issues to me so I consider that to be 
unworkable. Meaning: I trust their experience. So you have to do 
it over a suitable high level IR. I don't think D has that... At 
least not to my knowledge.