On 23 September 2014 14:41, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

On 9/22/14, 8:03 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:

I still think most of those users would accept RC instead of GC. Why not
support RC in the language, and make all of this library noise redundant?

A combo approach language + library delivers the most punch.

How so? In what instances are complicated templates superior to a language RC type?

Library RC can't really optimise well, RC requires language support to
elide ref fiddling.

For class objects that's what's going to happen indeed.

Where is this discussion? Last time I raised it, it was fiercely shut down and dismissed.