shared: Has anyone used it without a lot of pain?

[Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 6 April 2017 at 13:52:01 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> Right now, there are no way to transfers ownership from one 
> thread to another, so you pretty much got to cast to shared, 
> move data to the other thread and then cast back to not shared. 
> (People who followed closely will notice that this is somewhat 
> entangled with other problem D has such as nogc exception, see 
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/ikzzvbtvwhqweqlzxytz@forum.dlang.org ).

Heretic idea floating in the air: kill shared with a secret 
ritual, transmute it into "owned", keep the number of type 
constructor constant :)

The paper you linked also solves the "static this" having special 
rights on immutable data IIRC.