Am 09.10.2013 07:23, schrieb PauloPinto:

Apple dropped the GC and went ARC instead, because they never
managed to make it work properly.

It was full of corner cases, and the application could crash if
those cases were not fully taken care of.

Or course the PR message is "We dropped GC because ARC is better"
and not "We dropped GC because we failed".

Now having said this, of course D needs a better GC as the
current one doesn't fulfill the needs of potential users of the
language.

the question is - could ARC be an option for automatic memory managment
in D - so that the compiler generated ARC code when not using gc - but using gc-needed code?

or is that a hard to reach goal due to gc-using+arc-using lib combine problems?