D, Parasail, Pascal, and Rust vs The Steelman

[Shachar Shemesh]

On 22/03/18 16:45, Radu wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 March 2018 at 11:58:02 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>> On 22/03/18 12:28, Meta wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 21 March 2018 at 12:52:19 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> "The central failure of the language is the myopic focus on the 
>>> affine typing solution to heap allocation and thread safety. The 
>>> creators do not seem to realise that other solutions already exist, 
>>> and that dynamic memory allocation is not the only safety issue a 
>>> programmer has to cope with."
>>>
>>> Interesting that the author's criticism of Rust lines up very closely 
>>> with Andrei's.
>>
>> Spoken on the forum for a language that has still not managed to make 
>> sure that a destructor actually gets called every time an object is 
>> destroyed.....
>>
>> Shachar
> 
> Shaming this one? https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14246#c6
> 
> Indeed, that sucks big time!

There is hope.

We finally merged a PR that removes the changelog that erroneously 
claimed this issue was resolved.
https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/commit/45ca5e35d3de824e104c3049083eb23fa03775c5

Progress!!

Shachar