Is @safe still a work-in-progress?

bachmeier no at spam.net
Fri Aug 17 18:17:13 UTC 2018


On Friday, 17 August 2018 at 17:59:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> As opposed to today's situation, where somebody tries something 
> illegal and the compiler fails to detect it, and nobody even 
> know there's a problem until it becomes an exploitable bug that 
> causes a security problem.  Given today's security climate, 
> this would be utterly disastrous for D's reputation.

This is a good example of D needing to evolve or fizzle out. I 
don't see evidence that the community has yet figured out how to 
evolve the language. If it had, these problems would not be 
around for so many years.


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