On 04.01.2014 03:39, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Saturday, 4 January 2014 at 02:09:51 UTC, NoUseForAName wrote:
.. includes a pretty damning assessment of D as "unsafe" (compared to
Rust) and generally doomed.
I'd say the author is simply wrong about the doomed thing, the link he
cites doesn't make a convincing case, and is many years old anyway.
As for the safety thing, I partially agree. The concepts Rust has are
potentially very useful when working without the garbage collector. If
you can use the gc, it obviates much of it (the owner of all items is
the gc and they have an infinite lifetime, so tracking those things is
trivial), but writing a kernel is one place where you probably don't
want to use it, so that makes sense.
It is possible to use the Rust concepts in D, but you don't get as much
help from the compiler. Still better than C, but the rust system is nice
in this respect.
but i hate the rust syntax lol
I love it except for the pointer sigils, but then again I use ML
languages (Caml Light, OCaml, Haskell, F#), on and off, since 1996.
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Paulo
