Discussion about deprecating @nogc and workarounds

[Kapendev]

On Saturday, 7 September 2024 at 13:06:45 UTC, Lance Bachmeier 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 September 2024 at 08:05:10 UTC, Kapendev wrote:
>
>> BetterC is weird, but it does do something. If `@nogc` were to 
>> be removed, BetterC could act as a replacement for those who 
>> want to avoid using the gc and enforce that at compile time.
>
> How do you replace this code with BetterC? Answer: You don't.
>
> ```
> import std;
> void main() {
>     writeln(add(3, 4));
> }
> @nogc int add(int x, int y) { return x+y; }
> ```
>
> The use cases of @nogc and BetterC are very different. With 
> BetterC you lose classes, dynamic arrays, and associative 
> arrays, among other things.

You just don't use `@nogc`.
My point is that your code is already nogc. No need for an 
attribute.