Rebooting the __metada/__mutable discussion

[Timon Gehr]

On 10.04.22 16:48, Alexandru Ermicioi wrote:
> On Saturday, 9 April 2022 at 06:25:10 UTC, vit wrote:
>> RAII in D is bad: move ctor are not implemented, overloading copy 
>> ctors sometimes crash dmd, copy ctors are not called from GC slices, 
>> dtors have bad interaction with stack tuples/value sequences and 
>> opCast, emplace...
> 
> Imho these should be prioritized first before, doing yet another 
> language change. ...

I agree that lifetime semantics that actually work should be a much 
higher priority than hiding reference counts in immutable structures. 
(But maybe the people who are willing to fix either thing are not the 
same people.)