Feedback from the Gripes and Wishes Campaign

IGotD- nise at nise.com
Sun May 21 17:25:35 UTC 2023


On Saturday, 20 May 2023 at 20:41:31 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole wrote:

>
> It makes a lot of sense looking at it in hindsight.
>
> The GC is just a fancy pants memory allocator after all.
>
> So the fact that we use the "GC language extensions" in CTFE is 
> kinda irrelevant. It could just as easily work with malloc + 
> free if somebody wanted to implement it.

Translation of Walters claim:

CTFE is much easier when you don't need to worry about life times.

A follow up question is if it would be just as easy with a GC 
based on RAII.


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