Opportunities for D

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jul 11 04:55:55 PDT 2014


On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 22:50:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/10/2014 1:52 PM, bearophile wrote:
>> Walter Bright:
>>
>>> I can't imagine users going to the bother of typing all that, 
>>> let alone what
>>> happens when they do it wrong. Most users don't really have a 
>>> good handle on
>>> what the lifetimes of their data are, so how are they going 
>>> to annotate it
>>> correctly?
>>
>> I suggest you to go in the Rust mailing list and ask this 
>> question again.
>
> Rust has very little experience in real projects. I know that 
> people see all the hype about Rust and believe it has proved 
> itself, but it hasn't.
>
> I've read other papers about annotations in Java and how people 
> just refused to annotate their references.

This might have something to do with both the mindset of Java 
("isn't the runtime supposed to take care of this sort of 
thing?") and the fact that Java is already monstrously verbose.


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