Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 09:37:10 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 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

I would much rather delete to stay and rig it up so new and 
delete call the global allocator(which would be the GC by 
default).