On Saturday, 4 October 2014 at 09:18:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Threads are not isolated from each other. They are not. Not. Not.
Neither are programs that communicate in some fashion. I'll grant that the possibility of memory corruption doesn't exist in this case (a problem unique to systems languages like D), but system corruption still does. And I absolutely agree with you that if memory corruption is ever even suspected, the process must immediately halt. In that case I wouldn't even throw an Error, I'd call exit(1).
