Re: C and memory safety comments by me

[Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 19 May 2017 at 13:45:04 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
On 5/19/17 9:35 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote:

They do however say that the actual knowledge about Rust in 
the D
community seems to be rather small, compared to the amount of 
criticism
against it. And TBQH I have to agree. To criticize, you should 
at least
have a basic understanding of it.

The comments about Andrei saying Rust can't call into C or have 
C call back are quite harsh. Looking at Rust's ability to call 
C API, it seems they have a point -- it appears to be just like 
D in that you just declare an extern C function and can call it.

Disclaimer: have never used Rust.

What I've noticed is that Andrei and sometimes Walter do say C 
but mean C++ (note that the C++ files in the dmd code have only 
.c extension, not the usual .cpp). That is also why I had to make 
that remark the other day to be careful to not conflate C and C++ 
as they are really very different. The old canard that C is a 
subset of C++ was never true and has always been imo te thing 
that made C++ the Frankenstein monster it evolved into.