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

Subject: Re: [boost] discussion of garbage collection in C++
From: Raindog (raindog_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-25 00:23:47

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.