Status of @nogc with the runtime

[bachmeier]

On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 18:03:44 UTC, Peter Campbell 
wrote:

> My understanding from the vision documents and what Andrei 
> mentioned at his DConf presentations is that the runtime itself 
> will be modified to not rely on the GC, allowing for you to 
> continue using features such as associative arrays and array 
> concatenation, but without requiring the garbage collector. Is 
> my understanding correct? If so is work still being done to 
> make this happen

Andrei recently said something about an announcement coming, but 
I don't have any details. 
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7vw0gj/vanquish_forever_these_bugs_that_blasted_your/dtwb6fv/