Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[codephantom]

On Tuesday, 26 December 2017 at 22:56:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/26/2017 3:54 AM, codephantom wrote:
>> I simply have to 'forget' to annotate with @safe
>
> Not annotating with @safe is mechanically checkable as well.

If I were trying to create a marketing campaign for D, as being a 
safe language, then @safe being default would be the cornerstone 
of such a campaign.

Then you cannot 'forget' to use it, and there would be no need to 
check anything.

Then, anything not meant to be '@safe' has to be explicately, 
intentionally, marked as something else...and you simply cannot 
'forget' to do that, otherwise the code just won't compile 
correctly (I assume).

Since @safe is not default, such a marketing campaign would be 
pointless.

As such, as better and more realistic marketing campaign would 
promote D as being primarily a flexible language, with 'safe' 
features you can make use of, if you need them, some of which are 
on by default, and some which are not.