On Wednesday, January 09, 2013 12:16:46 Mehrdad wrote: > My entire point during this discussion has been that you _don't_ > _require_ a GC for anything, unlike what Walter said. Manual > (/automatic/whatever you want to call it) memory management can > take its place just fine.
Walter wasn't arguing that there wasn't a place for manual memory management. He was arguing that you can't guarantee memory safety if you're using manual memory management - hence why malloc and free are @system. @system code is not memory safe like @safe code is, but it still very much has it's place. - Jonathan M Davis