We are forking D

Hors q at q.com
Wed Jan 3 16:20:39 UTC 2024


On Wednesday, 3 January 2024 at 09:28:15 UTC, Martyn wrote:
> The only area I personally would disagree on is:-
> `Embracing the GC and improving upon it, disregarding betterC 
> and nogc in the process`
>
> I think GC should be optional or, atleast, have some kind of 
> Allocator feature so we can have control if needed.
>
> D allows you to code whatever way you like, or a combination of 
> them... why not provide this power when it comes to memory?
> [...]

If this fork also maintains interop with C, then we can still 
have control via malloc() and free() from a C library.


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