Everyone who writes safety critical software should read this

[bearophile]

Andrei Alexandrescu:

> How is this a response to what I wrote?

I have said that sometimes you want to use the safer types even 
in a place where you have said could use the primitive types.


> And to take that to its logical conclusion, we don't want the 
> defaults in the D language to cater to such applications.

Integral safety (and few other kinds of safeties) are useful even 
in software that's not high integrity :-)

Bye,
bearophile