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

Subject: Re: [boost] discussion of garbage collection in C++
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-22 20:20:13

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?