D - Unsafe and doomed

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Saturday, 4 January 2014 at 02:09:51 UTC, NoUseForAName wrote:
> .. includes a pretty damning assessment of D as "unsafe" 
> (compared to Rust) and generally doomed.

I'd say the author is simply wrong about the doomed thing, the 
link he cites doesn't make a convincing case, and is many years 
old anyway.

As for the safety thing, I partially agree. The concepts Rust has 
are potentially very useful when working without the garbage 
collector. If you can use the gc, it obviates much of it (the 
owner of all items is the gc and they have an infinite lifetime, 
so tracking those things is trivial), but writing a kernel is one 
place where you probably don't want to use it, so that makes 
sense.

It is possible to use the Rust concepts in D, but you don't get 
as much help from the compiler. Still better than C, but the rust 
system is nice in this respect.

but i hate the rust syntax lol