LinkedIn Article to be: Why you need to start moving off C/C++ to D, now.

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 19:58:32 UTC, Tobias Müller wrote:
> "Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:
>> ...
>> Personally, I don't believe anyone is able to reason properly 
>> about
>> manual memory management, unless they wrote 100% of their 
>> code, and don't
>> work in more than one codebase.
>
> IMO manual memory management is quite easy. In 99% of all cases 
> ownership
> is clear to trivial.
>
> But maybe this is just because I usually write C++ and 
> ownership is crucial
> in C++. Maybe it's more difficult if your accustomed to a GC.
>
> Tobi

When I started coding BASIC and Z80 were at the rage at home 
computers, so even though I favour RC/GC over manual memory 
management, I do have lots of experience with manual memory 
management.

Specially in enterprise teams with high attrition having more 
than 30 developers, where no one can really tell who owns what. 
And to top that, in one project we even had funny macros 
converting between handles and pointers, our own MMU, so to speak.

So I have my doubts when many developers work in the same code 
base that ownership is trivial.

--
Paulo