New pointer type for GC

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 17:35:18 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 17:27:20 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> Adding GC pointer type does not enable anything that you can't 
>> do write now for high-level applications and does not help at 
>> all low-level applications. It is niche solution.
>
> A niche solution is fine by me. Etienne has expressed interest 
> in creating a D to asm.js converter. Now, maybe the current D 
> is not suitable for that, but perhaps a dialect of D would be. 
> I could back that. That makes two who are interested. Add 2-3 
> more people and we could have a train going to a station that 
> is niche… but productive.

Get this into upstream and you will have dozens unhappy about 
updating for their code. It is never that simple.