D, Parasail, Pascal, and Rust vs The Steelman

[Shachar Shemesh]

On 22/03/18 12:28, Meta wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 March 2018 at 12:52:19 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> An article comparing the above languages as per the DoD language 
>> requirements [0].
>>
>> http://jedbarber.id.au/steelman.html
>>
>> [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelman_language_requirements
> 
> "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