Frameworks and libraries

[bachmeier]

On Friday, 15 September 2023 at 16:40:38 UTC, monkyyy wrote:

> a language includes its std and there's no alternative for std: 
> string, algorithm, range to be nogc'ed with a nice easy-to-grab 
> data structure. A betterc project is just going to be segmented 
> from the rest of d and be a very different project.
>
> If d were to start adding data structures to the std and 1 or 2 
> of them happened to work ok with betterc; maybe my answer would 
> change. But I really really do mean that d has one data 
> structure of note, the built-in dynamic array, and adding more 
> is obviously not a priority(despite that being insane).

betterC and @nogc are rather different. You don't have, and 
should not want, a GC in betterC code. @nogc is useful in the 
context of a regular D program that has places you want to 
guarantee the GC won't run. betterC code is perfectly fine to add 
to a regular D project. I do that with Mir.