On Monday, 8 February 2016 at 16:33:09 UTC, NX wrote:
I see... By any chance, can we solve this issue with GC managed pointers?
Maybe we could. But it's never going to happen. Even if Walter weren't fundamentally opposed to multiple pointer types in D, it wouldn't happen.
You asked about things that prevent improvement, right? Here's the big one, and a major point of friction in the community: Walter and Andrei refuse to break existing code in pursuit of changes that substantially improve the language. (Never mind that code tends to break anyway.)
-Wyatt
