Plan for D

[IGotD-]

On Saturday, 22 May 2021 at 13:36:11 UTC, sighoya wrote:
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> And then developing without a GC and dealing with many memory 
> containers which aren't that safely convertible to each other, 
> no, thanks.

This is point I have also thought about. If you only have one 
pointer type GC or not, then the algorithms of the data 
structures will work with any type of memory. Also there is no 
need for code duplication to work with different types of memory 
management containers.

Is is enough not to justify fat pointers? I personally don't 
think so. The generic programming of D is so good that you can 
create algorithms that will work with any MM container that you 
throw at it (with code duplication of course).

Not dealing with several MM containers like C++ (unique_ptr, 
shared_ptr, atomic_shared_ptr) and Rust is kinda nice, but only 
one like Nim with the "ref" keyword is acceptable I think.