DIP74 - where is at?

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/12/2015 06:49 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Experience with Rust is still young, but there seems to have already
> been a backlash; programmers try it and it's just too arcane to use
> in constant preoccupation about them ownership rules. ...

> Copying linear types and going whole-hog stealing the ownership system
> from Rust doesn't sound like the best strategy to Walter and myself.

D can do ownership without copying the details of the Rust way. I think 
that Marc's point was that basic similarities should be allowed, because 
the design space isn't that vast.

> At least one PL researcher whose opinion I trust believes linear types
> don't have a future.

We already have linear types. (@disable this(this)).

> D has its own context and its own approach to matters. I believe creative
> solutions are possible that achieve much of what we need without going
> the Rust way, which seems not appropriate for us.

What do we need?