Will escape analysis and reference count as alternative GC appear in C# 8.0?

[ygc369]

As C# 7.0 will be released soon, there's no time to add more features. But there are still many good ideas that has not come true in C# 7.0, so I wonder which of them would be in the roadmap of C# 8.0, such as escape analysis and reference count as alternative GC.

[masonwheeler]

That's not a language-level issue. Replacing the GC would require massive, fundamental changes to the runtime, and to the runtime specification.

[jkotas]

Dup of https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/430 and https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/1784. You can follow the discussion about these ideas in the existing issues.