D - Unsafe and doomed

[Iain Buclaw]

On 4 January 2014 03:31, logicchains <jonathan.t.barnard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 January 2014 at 03:16:37 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>>
>> Basically D provides safety, but it also provides means to do unsafe
>> things. I'm not familiar with Rust, but I wouldn't be surprised if unsafe
>> actions could also be taken.
>
>
> You can still take unsafe actions, they just need to be wrapped in an
> 'unsafe' block. Any code that calls this block also needs to be marked as
> 'unsafe'. I recently wrote the exact same program in both D and Rust, and if
> you compare the two you'll find that almost the entire Rust program is
> enclosed in 'unsafe' blocks (note the Rust code is for a release from a
> couple of months ago, so the syntax is outdated).


Rust syntax changes every couple of months?!?!?