Incremental garbage collection

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Saturday, 22 January 2022 at 13:19:57 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> Having a decent allocator library at the runtime level 
> available for all D code (not just for those with druntime) 
> will be key to allowing this to happen.

I think some language adjustments are needed, but it could be a 
dialect. Doesn't have to apply to DMD, as it seems to be locked 
down at this point.

You basically need some room to experiment to get it right, and 
that requires freedom (which will never happen if everyone in the 
forums are going to have their say).

So whether you want to focus on ARC, actors/fibers with local GC 
or concurrent GC, you should be able to adjust the language so 
that your vision can be enabled in a clean fashion.

I don't think having dialects is a big issue. I think it is the 
only way forward for automatic memory management + system level 
programming. You can design your dialect such that most straight 
forward single-threaded code run with next to no changes.

It is either that or another language will grab the user base 
that wants it.