Opportunities for D

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On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 03:12:24 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> I don't know, but I assume it would have to be competitive with 
> what Rust provides.

I think the Rust team found that implementing a sound 
borrow-checker was basically impossible without requiring 
lifetime annotations in some cases. So if D wanted to go down the 
Rust route, it'd have to be willing to add new syntax for 
lifetime annotations (although these can apparently be inferred 
in most cases so aren't often required).