Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 04:47:20 UTC, Enamex wrote:
> Right now docs say that `delete` is getting deprecated but 
> using it on DMD .067.1 gives no warnings.

There are no warnings because it hasn't actually been deprecated 
yet. So, the docs are quite correct. They say that it's _going_ 
to be deprecated, not that it has been deprecated. Ideally, it 
would have been deprecated quite some time ago, but without the 
custom allocators, it's a lot harder to do something similar to 
what delete does. So, if we'd actually deprecated it, we'd have 
done so without a viable alternative (it's possible without 
custom allocators, but it's hard to get right). Now, I think that 
the reality of the matter that it hasn't been deprecated is 
simply because no one has gotten around to it yet, but there are 
problems with deprecating it prior getting customer allocators. 
Fortunately, it looks like we will soon have that in 
std.experimental, so it will become more reasonable to deprecate 
delete, and maybe we can finally deprecate it and start moving it 
out of the language. But it's been planned for ages that delete 
would be removed from D at some point.

- Jonathan M Davis