D - Unsafe and doomed

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/3/14 6:09 PM, 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).

This thread is very interesting - I posted a link to it to the reddit 
discussion: 
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ucvtd/using_rust_for_an_undergraduate_os_course/ceh5ysq

Andrei