Allocators and Containers

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 17 February 2017 at 03:05:04 UTC, Jon Degenhardt wrote:
> This is very useful information. Is there a thread or document 
> describing this further? I'm not looking for hard decisions. 
> Just that it's useful to have bigger picture view of what is on 
> the horizon. If there's nothing readily available, perhaps a 
> talk at DConf?
>
> --Jon

This is based on conversations I've had with Andrei and Walter on 
here and on Github.

There was a bunch of threads here about six months ago by Andrei 
talking about the different problems he was running into when 
trying to implement @safe and @nogc containers. One of the 
conclusions was that ref counting was going to have to be a 
nessesary component of the solution. This led to DIP1000 because 
of Andrei's conclusion that "Safe reference counting cannot be 
implemented as a library" 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/n0nnu0$1tth$1@digitalmars.com.

Also, there's the vision document, which lays out some goals but 
does not talk about containers: 
https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2017H1