Built-in RAII in D

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On Sunday, 28 May 2017 at 18:50:02 UTC, Nerve wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 May 2017 at 18:38:21 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
>> All in all, I see little to no benefit to what you propose, 
>> while requiring significant work on the language spec.
>
> Point taken. My only remaining reservation then is the 
> communication problem D has with the wider prospective 
> programming world in conveying that the GC has alternatives 
> that work.

I agree.

Currently, a good answer is to direct people to the "Don't fear 
the reaper" [0] article, but I feel it does not really address 
all concerns of people. Concerns like:

* How much of Phobos does not work with @nogc? A good answer 
would probably be case studies of larger programs/companies. Does 
Weka use @nogc a lot?
* How to work around the GC? The reaper article does not mention 
RefCounted.
* Limitations of @nogc? It does not prevent *another* thread to 
call the GC, which might then stop the world. We have to mention 
the trick to create threads which are not tracked by GC.
* How good is the D GC? Will it improve in the foreseeable 
future? Information about the performance of the current GC is 
quite dated, although I guess not much has changed.

Also, p0nce has some more GC tricks: 
https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/

[0] https://dlang.org/blog/2017/03/20/dont-fear-the-reaper/