The "no gc" crowd

[deadalnix]

On Wednesday, 9 October 2013 at 23:37:53 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote:
> In an ideal world, we'd be able to choose between using a GC or 
> using ARC when building our program. A compiler flag could do 
> the trick. But that becomes messy when libraries (static and 
> dynamic) get involved as they all have to agree on the same 
> codegen to work together. Adding something to mangling that 
> would cause link errors in case of mismatch might be good 
> enough to prevent accidents though.

ObjC guys used to think that. It turns out it is a really bad 
idea.