D - Unsafe and doomed

[Paulo Pinto]

On 04.01.2014 03:09, NoUseForAName wrote:
> This piece (recently seen on the Hacker News front page):
>
> http://rust-class.org/pages/using-rust-for-an-undergraduate-os-course.html
>
> .. includes a pretty damning assessment of D as "unsafe" (compared to
> Rust) and generally doomed. I remember hearing Walter Bright talking a
> lot about "safe code" during a D presentation. Was that about a
> different kind of safety? Is the author just wrong? Basically I want to
> hear the counterargument (if there is one).

He gets his assumptions about D wrong, but I find it nice that he 
decided to show his students there are other safer languages to write 
operating systems on.

If UNIX did not widespread outside academia, most likely C would not 
have reached the status it achieved.

--
Paulo