On Wednesday, 19 May 2021 at 11:58:21 UTC, josh wrote:
>I don't like GC either, but the real issue is the absence of any ideology, target market, goals and plans.
There is an ideology in @safe, but the problem is that pointer analysis is a research topic, so pursuing it in @nogc code is not realistic... Goals are set too high.
Lower the goal to having a library RC pointer with ARC and suddenly you are in a better position than C++ for some use cases.
By pursuing @safe in non-gc code it will either take forever or you'll end up with something too annoying to use.