Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

[Walter Bright]

On 8/26/2018 6:09 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> I don't know what Walter's current plans are for what any built-in
> ref-counting solution would look like, but it's my understanding that
> whatever he was working on was put on hold, because he needed something like
> DIP 1000 in order to make it work with @safe - which is what then triggered
> his working on DIP 1000 like he has been. So, presumably, at some point
> after DIP 1000 is complete and ready, he'll work on the ref-counting stuff
> again. So, while we may very well get it, I expect that it will be a while.

DIP1000 is needed to make ref counting memory safe.

Andrei is working on ref counting, and he's concluded that copy constructors are 
a key feature to make them work. Postblits are, sadly, a great idea that are 
just a failure.

Hence, dip1000 and copy constructors (Razvan is working on that) are key 
technologies.