Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 7 00:17:04 PDT 2016


On 6/6/2016 11:46 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 06:22:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/6/2016 10:38 PM, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> The D ecosystem is a large pile of incomplete features, with more added all the
>>> time.
>>
>> Even with only array bounds checking, D is safer than C++.
>
> Better doesn't matter. So good that it justify the switch do matter, anything
> less is worthless.

The context is someone using C++ for the sole reason that D has holes in @safe, 
and that doesn't make sense.

Granted, one can certainly have other reasons to prefer C++. But memory safety 
isn't one of them.


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