Status of @nogc with the runtime

[Peter Campbell]

On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 23:43:07 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 18:03:44 UTC, Peter Campbell 
> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I haven't heard anything about that, and I doubt it would 
> happen. How would you actually manage the memory? The 
> front-facing api there doesn't offer any access to it.
>
> But, of course, it is quite easy to write your own types that 
> do the same stuff (including operator overloading, of course) 
> that do expose memory management, and you can use those with or 
> without the runtime.

The first time I heard about this was the DConf 2016 keynote: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oDK91E3VKs&feature=youtu.be&t=2023

Andrei discusses a reference counting based approach however 
there are requirements which make it difficult to implement in 
the runtime. It's also mentioned in both the 2017 vision 
documents on the wiki.