Small @nogc experience report

[Dukc]

On Saturday, 8 September 2018 at 08:32:58 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> Not Weka but we are happy with @nogc and without @nogc our job 
> would be impossible.

There is one way to code without garbage collector somewhat 
practically without annotating @nogc, the way I use: Compile 
manually only those parts of runtime you need and have linker to 
link in only needed symbols (so there is no need to go stubbing 
the whole runtime). If you accidently allocate, you get linker 
errors.

Still, @nogc helps because it will tell right away where I called 
something I should not.

I wonder if having an option to compile DRuntime without support 
for thearding would simplify portability. I once read the 
implementation and got the impression that theards are by far the 
most platform-dependant part of it.