Heartbleed and static analysis

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On Sunday, 13 April 2014 at 17:31:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Interestingly, I've been seeing that what makes D code much 
> more robust is a consequence of 'unittest' coupled with -cov.

It is big deal breaker for personal projects and open-source 
collaboration. For big private projects agreeing on single 
testing framework and adding one of coverage analyzers to the CI 
is not that much of a problem. Convenient, but not a deal breaker 
over C++.

But being less afraid to actually write code because of more 
powerful type system and safer defaults - this is huge.

I think most important thing about built-in unittests is how this 
feature encourages to add tests when contributing to projects 
that don't currently have any real coverage. It becomes so easy 
that there is not reason to not do it and this help open-source a 
lot.