ARC in D

[eugene via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 2 January 2017 at 16:32:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, January 02, 2017 16:07:26 eugene via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, 2 January 2017 at 15:49:47 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> > On Monday, 2 January 2017 at 15:43:22 UTC, eugene wrote:
>> >> hello everyone,
>> >> is there any kind of smart pointers or something in D 
>> >> instead
>> >> of GC?
>> >
>> > It's coming!
>>
>> is it coming for real, or just for the record?
>
> Walter has been making improvements to @safe so that he can 
> implement some form of @safe reference counting in the 
> language. Exactly what that will look like or when it will be 
> done is an open question (I don't even know how much Walter 
> knows about that), but work _is_ being done specifically with 
> language supported ref-counting in mind.
>
> So, is it coming? Yes. Is it coming soon? Maybe. I wouldn't bet 
> on it, but Walter could surprise us. He could have something by 
> dconf, or enough stuff may be required to get it working or 
> enough other important stuff may take up his time that we don't 
> see anything until next year. I really don't know. As it is, 
> it's already effectively been delayed by the need to improve 
> @safe in order to make it work - though the @safe work is 
> pretty important in its own right.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

thank you!