RFC: reference counted Throwable

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 05:55:20 UTC, Cliff wrote:
> .NET suffers a similar problem in spite of the community's best 
> efforts with Mono - it'll always be a distant 2nd (or 5th or 
> 20th) on other platforms.  And on Windows, C++ won't get 
> supplanted by .NET absent a sea-change in the mindset of the 
> Windows OS group - which is notoriously resistant to change 
> (and they have a colossal existing code base which isn't likely 
> to benefit from the kind of inflection point Apple had moving 
> to a BSD and porting/rewriting scads of code.)
>

A bit OT: but Mono seems to be a popular platform for desktop 
application on linux. I have no idea why.