D, Parasail, Pascal, and Rust vs The Steelman

Radu void at null.pt
Thu Mar 22 14:45:35 UTC 2018


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!


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