My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 22:21:51 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> Not sure if I'm interpreting your answer correctly but there is 
> no contradiction between managed pointers and raw pointers when 
> it comes to interoperability.

I don't know enough about Nim, but it would be a mistake to 
replace one memory management solution with another one, if it:

1. Still does not satisfy people who want something slightly 
higher level than C++, but low level enough to create competitive 
game engines.

2. Requires semantic changes that makes D more like Nim.

3. Increases the complexity of the compiler unnecessarily.

I would strongly favour simple schemes. So I'd rather see 
actor-local GC + ARC (without cycle detection).

Complex schemes tend to go haywire when people go hard in on low 
level hand-optimization. Programmers need to understand what goes 
on. As can be seen in the forums, many have a hard time 
understanding how the current GC works (despite it being quite 
simplistic). I can only imagine how many will fail to understand 
ORC…