On 9/15/14, 3:30 AM, bearophile wrote:

Andrei Alexandrescu:

Walter, Brad, myself, and a couple of others have had a couple of
quite exciting ideas regarding code that is configurable to use the GC
or alternate resource management strategies.

An alternative design solution is to follow the Java way, leave the D
strings as they are, and avoid to make a mess of user D code. Java GC
and runtime contain numerous optimizations for the management of
strings, like the recently introduced string de-duplication at run-time:

https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2014/08/string-deduplication-new-feature-java-8-update-20-2

Again, it's become obvious that a category of users will simply refuse to use a GC, either for the right or the wrong reasons. We must make D eminently usable for them.