My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[Araq]

On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 17:41:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 15:46:15 UTC, Tejas wrote:
>> On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 15:37:04 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> [...]
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>> What do you think about Nim's ARC + GC solution? They call it 
>> ORC :
>> https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/15/introduction-to-arc-orc-in-nim.html
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> It is an old idea that goes back to systems like Mesa/Cedar in 
> the early 1980's.
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> https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xeroxparctddingGarbageCollectionandRuntimeTypestoa_1765837
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> Used to create this workstation OS at Xerox PARC,
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> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

Mesa/Cedar used deferred reference counting plus a cycle 
collector, that's Nim's old default GC, ORC is completely 
different... But hey, what do I know, I only implemented both.