Allocator-aware @safe reference counting is still not possible

[Paul Backus]

On Monday, 30 January 2023 at 18:33:57 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> If we hired some people then yes 1&2 (but not 3). Otherwise we 
> are stuck with changing the goal posts from perfect to good 
> enough for the time being. As Andrei use to say: perfect is the 
> enemy of the good; which is unfortunately what I think we need 
> to strongly consider here. We have what appears to be a pretty 
> decent path forward for 'good'.

I'm not opposed to the idea of moving the goalposts in principle, 
I am just not sure where you are proposing that we move them to. 
:) It seems like every time I ask, I get a different answer.

> It shouldn't matter what allocator library you use. Either it 
> works or it doesn't. The compiler shouldn't care whose code it 
> is, only the lifetime patterns.

For example: I agree with this paragraph in principle, but isn't 
this one of the goalposts that you were just saying we should be 
willing to move?