D - Unsafe and doomed

[QAston]

On Saturday, 4 January 2014 at 11:36:20 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> 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

Ada is not hype enough, so it doesn't qualify. J/K (no 
death-threats please), I gave rust a try, i couldn't get it to 
run on my OS.