Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[codephantom]

On Tuesday, 26 December 2017 at 07:33:18 UTC, Mark wrote:
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> Then whoever is using your code (you?) will find that out when 
> they call your functions from a @safe function.

And if they forget to annotate their so called 'safe' function 
with @safe...what happens then?

Comparing the 'memory safety' of languages seems a little 
pointless to me..because any programmer can stuff up in any 
language.

As it stands, D does not nullify the truth of that statement.

Which makes me wonder why it is, that @safe is not default in D, 
and Phobos for that matter?

If it were, then that would be a more useful thing to promote D, 
because, as it currently stands, if I forget to annotate my 
function with @safe, then I'm in the same world of forgetting to 
do something in C..or C++.. or whatever...(like checking whether 
I'm referencing a valid memory address).