More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

Xavier Bigand via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon May 12 14:28:49 PDT 2014


Le 12/05/2014 19:14, Dicebot a écrit :
> On Monday, 12 May 2014 at 17:03:41 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> But D is *so close*... and I like it! >_<
>>
>> I have to say that this discussion has certainly left me somewhat
>> intrigued by Rust though.
>> I've never given it a fair go because I find the syntax so distasteful
>> and deterring.
>> I wonder if there's a market for a rust fork that re-skin's the
>> language ;)
>
> Right now D has practical benefit of being more stable and library rich.
> But switching to Rust eventually does seem tempting as I find
> foundations of their type system much closer to my beliefs about "good
> coding practices".
>
> It lacks any good static reflection though. And this stuff is damn
> addictive when you try it of D caliber.

All compile time things of D are marvelous.
This with the compile time and the language less error prone make me want D.
I am not sure I need safety so much. It's nice but not mandatory for any 
of my projects. The only one which has to be safe is DQuick.



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