On Monday, 25 May 2020 at 16:47:50 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
the compiler must warn D programmers that their declarations need to be reviewed for compatibility with @safe-by-default. Whether they were reviewed before that or not makes no difference.
I'm not an engineer; I'm not learned in CS. So some clarification on this would be nice: if you're pulling in C code, or any code written in an unsafe language, wouldn't the developers doing such a thing already be aware they need to do their due diligence? Foreign code isn't just going to magically appear in your codebase, right? Maybe through dependencies, but one should check those too, eh? (And if the dependency tree is needlessly large, then the language has another, maybe bigger, problem à la the NPM ecosystem.)
