Feedback from the Gripes and Wishes Campaign

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 21/05/2023 8:33 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> The GC has a surprise advantage that nobody really thought of. It 
> enables much more CTFE to be done. It's hard to do meaningful CTFE 
> without memory allocation, and GC is perfectly suited to that task.

It makes a lot of sense looking at it in hindsight.

The GC is just a fancy pants memory allocator after all.

So the fact that we use the "GC language extensions" in CTFE is kinda 
irrelevant. It could just as easily work with malloc + free if somebody 
wanted to implement it.