On Wednesday, 6 June 2012 at 23:10:54 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:01:55 +0200, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
On 07-06-2012 00:04, J.Varghese wrote:
I'm not a programmer, so can someone explain this to me: Will
programs
and operating systems written in D be safer (I speak of both
memory
safety and security bugs) than existing operating systems
written in C
and C++? If so, what features and attributes of D make this
the case?
How much safer is it? Would it be possible to identify all
the bugs in
an OS written in D (within a reasonable timeframe) or is that
still a
pipedream?
Thanks for replying. I have followed the development of D for
a while.
I just want to know how much safer D is than other languages.
Curiosity
and all that.
No programming language (today) can make cryptosystems more or
less
mathematically secure. ...
So what D does is that it prevents small but common exploits in
programs. But that doesn't mean that your program is
cryptographically
sound/secure, for example.
As always, It Depends (TM). :)
I'd add to this list a philosophy decision: D tries to make the
correct
way the easiest way and path of least resistance. A highly
disciplined
and skilled C coder could accomplish the effect, but practically
speaking, this can help eliminate a class of errors due to
programmer
laziness or lack of understanding.
Justin
The problem is that "skilled C coders" are very hard to find.
The company I work for does consultancy in JVM and .NET
environments, and I cry every time I do code review in languages
that are supposedly easy to master.
I cannot even imagine the type of code many of our developers
would write in C or C++.
