DIP 1028 "Make @safe the Default" is dead

[Iain Buclaw]

On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 04:53:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> The subject says it all.
>
> If you care about memory safety, I recommending adding `safe:` 
> as the first line in all your project modules, and annotate 
> individual functions otherwise as necessary. For modules with C 
> declarations, do as you think best.
>

I don't think this is the best way forward.

Though I've only skim read the discussion thread (mostly only 
reading posts by those I know in person), I am inferring that 
both extremes - extern @safe and extern @system - both suffer 
from the same defect in DIP 1018 with regards to the greenwashing 
problem.  It also looks like all current suggestions for a 
compromise on the matter are pretty woeful as well (though I 
don't pretend to have read them all).

It seems that there will have to be some restrictions in place 
that prevent inappropriate annotations, at the cost of long 
deprecations and breaking existing code.

I don't see any point in listing any such rules though unless the 
dip process is restarted.