D - Unsafe and doomed

[bearophile]

NoUseForAName:

> http://rust-class.org/pages/using-rust-for-an-undergraduate-os-course.html

Why aren't they using Ada? It has a really refined and safe 
parallelism, it's quite safe, it teaches a student the correct 
ways of dealing with pointers, memory etc in a low-level setting. 
It's usable for hard-realtime. And it's way more commonly used 
than Rust. There are books on Ada. Its compilers are solid, and 
while Ada is being updated significantly (the latest is Ada2012) 
there's no risk in having important parts of the language become 
backward incompatible in the short term. Ada code is not sexy, 
but this is not a significant problem for an advanced course 
lasting few months. Ada is a complex language, but it's the right 
kind of complexity, it's not special cases piled on special 
cases, it's features piled on features to deal correctly with 
different needs (just like in D, despite D is less designed for 
correctness compared to Ada).

Bye,
bearophile