On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 00:35:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts
dedicated to avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is
finding the right name.
An obvious choice is std.experimental.nogc but we know from
Marketing 101 that expressing something as a positive is better
than a negative. Another possibility is std.experimental.rc,
but that's imprecise because the artifacts in there will
contain a variety of things in addition to reference
counting-related artifacts.
Ideas?
Andrei
Aside from that, naming it std.experimental.nogc is a bad idea
because it'll
confuse newcomers, thinking it's somehow related to @nogc...
Which it is, but
we don't want people importing std.experimental.nogc because they
think they
need to do that to use @nogc.
Ideas:
std.experimental.gcless (still negative)
std.experimental.gcfree
std.experimental.realtime
std.experimental.pausefree
std.experimental.manualheap
std.experimental.manualmem
