Opportunities for D

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/8/2014 6:01 PM, Mike wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 21:22:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> 1. Ref Counting
>>
>> I believe that ARC is a pipe dream for D, as we've discussed extensively here.
>> But a ref counted object should work, and would be very attractive, much like
>> C++'s shared_ptr<T>.
>
> How does this differ from std.typecons.RefCounted?

Let me put it this way: users all complain that D doesn't have ref counting. If 
typecons.RefCounted works, why is this happening? What can be done to convince 
people that D does ref counting? If it doesn't work, what needs to be done to 
fix it?