When is the next article in the GC series?

[Mike Parker]

On Friday, 3 July 2020 at 09:19:27 UTC, aberba wrote:

>
> Sometimes making people aware of the dark side is also 
> important. So a blog post should strike a balance between the 
> two...more transparency.

Agreed! If you look through the blog history, you'll find I don't 
shy away from it generally. That said, the purpose of the blog 
has evolved since its inception. As the *official* D blog, it's 
now a major marketing tool, so we do have to be more careful 
about tone than we were in the first year or so before we thought 
of it that way. That wasn't the consideration in this case, 
though. I expected the issue would be resolved sooner or later, 
so I thought it better to wait.

>
> But I guess in your you kind of were waiting for the bus 
> GC.inFinalizer

Yes. I was hoping more for the separation of finalization and 
destruction. I started a thread about it here a while back and 
have discussed it with others at DConf and via email, and I have 
thought about different approaches for implementing it in the 
hopes of recruiting someone to write a DIP for it (writing DIPs 
is not something I want to do as DIP manager). The `inFinalizer` 
thing gets the job done, though, and without breakage.