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

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?