It is the year 2020: why should I use / learn D?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Nov 14 23:17:30 UTC 2018


On 11/14/2018 7:57 AM, jmh530 wrote:
> It's actually quite a bit more than I remembered:
> 
> https://ericniebler.github.io/std/wg21/D4128.html#iterator-operations-are-primitive

The trouble with the iterator-pair approach, not mentioned in that article, is 
that it is not checkable for memory safety. The article mentions as a defect 
that D ranges can only shrink, and cannot grow. But that's fundamental to memory 
safety.


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