Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 6 22:25:53 PDT 2016


On 6/6/2016 5:19 PM, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Safety as a
> usable subset of D is still pretty non-existent and yet is used as a selling
> point.  The language still has holes -- I don't have bug report numbers, but
> others have reported them in the past, some closed some not.  At the library
> level things are far worse.  I've yet to be able to write any interesting apps
> with an @safe main.

Without knowing any details of why your app wouldn't compile as @safe, there's 
nothing useful nor actionable in the complaint.

There also is a conflation of two issues in the complaint - compiling programs 
that are unsafe despite being marked @safe, and the compiler complaining about 
unsafe code in code you'd like to be marked @safe. Which is it?



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