Re: [boost] discussion of garbage collection in C++

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. Given that a large number of C++ programmers don't even take advantage of RAII, I would say that a c++ runtime w/ GC and RAII would be very appealing to a larger number of people.