If you needed any more evidence that memory safety is the future...

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Mar 8 15:57:10 PST 2017


On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:38:24PM +0000, XavierAP via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> Also at least as of 2010 Andrei's book stated that "At the time of
> this writing, SafeD is of alpha quality -- meaning that there may be
> unsafe programs [@safe code blocks] that pass compilation, and safe
> programs that don't -- but is an area of active development." And 7
> years later in this forum I'm hearing many screams for @nogc but
> little love for @safe...

To be fair, though, in the past several months Walter has merged quite a
number of PRs to dmd that close many of the holes found in @safe.  I
don't think we can say @safe is bulletproof yet, but it would be unfair
to say that no progress has been made.


T

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