Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d]

Marco Leise:

> The extent of what borrowing solves is really yaw dropping
> when you read the list of use cases and I will surely add
> scope to every function argument that it applies to (and
> already do that), because it makes it verifiable safe to call
> with any pointer type, be it ARC, GC or stack. I consider that
> more important than const or pure.

I consider the tracking of memory ownership more important for D 
than the whole reference counting discussions (despite the two 
topics are partially linked). Because it's a correctness issue 
(and will also lead to some performance improvements too).

Bye,
bearophile