Why does D rely on a GC?

[Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d]

On 18/08/2014 13:55, Peter Alexander wrote:
> I'm not sure what the status of std.typecons.Unique is. Last I heard it
> had some issues, but I haven't tried it much myself.

It should work, but it is bug-prone without the @disable this(this) fix 
in master. Unfortunately that won't make it into 2.066.

Also, the web docs lack a concrete example - I have a pull which fixes that:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2346