DIP60: @nogc attribute

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/16/2014 2:03 AM, JN wrote:
> I'd have to agree. I doubt @nogc will change anything, people will just start
> complaining about limitations of @nogc (no array concat, having to use own
> libraries which may be incompatible with phobos). The complaints mostly come
> from the fact that D wants to offer a choice, in other languages people just
> accept what they have. You don't see C# developers complaining much about having
> to use GC, or C++ programmers all over the world asking for GC. Well, most of
> the new games (Unity3D) are done in C# nowadays and people live with it even
> though game development is one of the biggest C++ loving and GC hating crowd
> there is.

We have to try. Especially since @nogc is a low risk thing - it doesn't break 
anything, and is a fairly simple addition to the compiler.


> Another issue is the quality of D garbage collector, but adding alternative
> memory management ways doesn't help, fragmenting the codebase.

No improvement to the GC is acceptable to people who want to manually manage 
memory. That much is quite clear.