On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 00:15:12 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 21:56:58 UTC, mw wrote:
I think this flexibility to mix GC & manual memory management
is very unique in D. Actually I'm not sure if it can be done
in other languages at all.
It sure can. Most AOT languages that provide GC also provide
C-interfaces and manual memory management. C++ also had the
Boehm-collector since the 90s. Chrome uses Oilpan, a
library-style GC with write barriers and incremental collection.
ok, what I really mean is:
... in other "(more popular) languages (than D, and directly
supported by the language & std library only)" ...
