My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 19:22:11 UTC, Araq wrote:
> As long as D doesn't distinguish GC'ed pointers from non-GC'ed 
> pointers and allows for unprincipled unions I fail to see how 
> it's "good news".

The union issue can be fixed by using a selector-function, but it 
sounds like Nim and its memory management solution is higher 
level than D. It would probably be a mistake for D to follow 
there given the focus on ```importC``` etc.