A betterC base

[ixid]

On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 15:51:38 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 15:43:01 UTC, ixid wrote:
>> That's been said over and over and the message has not gotten 
>> through.
>
> It is almost never said! We always play by their terms and 
> implicitly concede by saying "but we can avoid it" or "look 
> -betterC".
>
> Reddit invades our space, and we fall back. Rust assimilates 
> entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again! The line must be 
> drawn here! This far, no further!

You're preaching to the choir here. Being able to add GC easily 
to a betterC base gives you the same utility and a much stronger 
story to tell people, optional GC sounds good.

Do you really think sticking with the current course on GC would 
gain more users than very slightly changing tack and making it 
something you add to a simpler base? I think the second of those 
will gain more users.