Contradictory justification for status quo

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d]

Andrei Alexandrescu:

> I'm following with interest the discussion "My Reference Safety 
> System (DIP???)". Right now it looks like a lot of work - a 
> long opener, subsequent refinements, good discussion. It also 
> seems just that - there's work but there's no edge to it yet; 
> right now a DIP along those ideas is more likely to be rejected 
> than approved. But I certainly hope something good will come 
> out of it.

The second scope proposal looks simpler than the first:
http://wiki.dlang.org/User:Schuetzm/scope2

Later in Rust they have added some lifetime inference to reduce 
the annotation burden in many cases.

Bye,
bearophile