More D & Rust

[bearophile]

It seems D comes up often in Rust threads :-)

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/11j38z/mozilla_and_the_rust_team_announce_version_04_of/

I still think D and Rust should join forces to design a single GC 
usable for both languages :-) Their GC needs are not _that_ 
different.


A question in that thread:
> My question is, what are the advantages of Rust over D? How do 
> you think they compare?

An answer by ssylvan:

>For me, the memory management of Rust (the three pointer types, 
>per-task GC), as well as the additional safety (in particular, D 
>still has nulls all over the place - IME the by far most common 
>remaining "real world" crash seen in so called "memory safe" 
>languages - it's unfortunate because we know that they can be 
>statically eliminated). Also, not a fan of the class/struct 
>distinction in D, I think it encourages heap allocations, 
>whereas Rust drastically prefers big chunky objects that mostly 
>stay on the stack or inside another object with only the 
>extremely rare allocation, and even then most of those can be 
>unique (no GC/RC).<

Bye,
bearophile