More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/10/14, 11:27 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 11 May 2014 14:57, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On 5/10/2014 8:58 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>
>>> This is truly a niche usage case though,
>>
>>
>> Come on! Like about 80% of the programs on any linux box? Like the OCR
>> program I run? A payroll processing program? Any scientific numerical
>> analysis program? Engineering programs?
>
> Linux programs aren't at risk of being ported from C any time soon.

Is this seriously being aired as an argument? -- Andrei