DIP60: @nogc attribute

[Mike via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 02:14:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/15/2014 6:57 PM, Mike wrote:
>> I suspect some of the motivation for this is to give customers 
>> "faster horses".
>> I would be surprised if a @nogc attribute increased D's 
>> appeal, and I think
>> efforts would be better allocated to some form of the above.
>
> Asking for @nogc comes up *constantly*.

I know it does, but users employing @nogc still have to manage 
memory somehow.  Let's add hooks to the runtime and implement 
some GC alternatives, and then see what demand is like ;-)