On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Raindog <raindog@macrohmasheen.com> wrote:
Mathias Gaunard wrote:
Simonson, Lucanus J wrote:
Why stop half way? Why not have an open source C++ runtime environment if the goal is applications programming and rapid prototyping in C++ with open source components? An open source GC library is a good building block for such a system, and of course we'd prefer to implement it in C++.
Why build a runtime environment based on GC when you can make a better one that is not?
Because the majority of programmers have proven that they obviously prefer a GC environment over an RAII one.
So they can use a GC environment -- there are plenty of them to choose from. Somehow, C++ (and C) prevail and remain popular without GC. :) Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode