RFC: reference counted Throwable

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2014-09-21 07:55, Cliff wrote:

> Swift will never be more important than Objective C was - which is to
> say it'll be the main development language on Apple products and
> probably nothing else.  That has real value, but the limits on it are
> pretty hard and fast (which says more about Apple than the language
> itself.)
>
> .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.)

Unfortunately the user base is so large on these platforms that it's 
enough for these languages to only work on one particular platform and 
the developers will invest a huge amount work on it anyway. The 
languages will have a large user base even though they only work on one 
platform.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg