Borrow Checking and Ownership Transfer

[Araq]

On Sunday, 18 May 2025 at 03:34:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/12/2025 11:21 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Monday, 12 May 2025 at 21:38:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> It never made it into the C++ Standard, and its only use is 
>>> CLI.
>> 
>> So what.
>
> Why wouldn't a GC pointer be of general utility in C++?

The GC pointer in C++ is called shared_ptr and it was considered 
to be of general utility... But .NET comes with its own GC based 
on tracing, not on reference counting and thus they added a 
pointer type for this. This is just some very basic good design, 
stop acting like multiple pointer types are somehow a "failed 
experiment", it's ridiculous.