Why Rust for safe systems programming?

[Mike Franklin]

On Wednesday, 24 July 2019 at 06:22:01 UTC, bauss wrote:

>>> Can DLang be disabled for GC, or is it necessary to disable 
>>> it? Of course, many people do not like betterC.
>
> Well, it still doesn't disable the GC since the runtime still 
> loads it.
>
> Also you can still use the GC in @nogc code if you use 
> `assumeNoGC` so it's not entirely gone.

Yeah, things like `@nogc` and `-betterC` are kludgy to me. I hope 
one day for an opt-in language where you just pay for what you 
use without any special attributes or compiler switches.

As mentioned in the article, one of the benefits of C, C++, and 
Rust is their "minimal and optional runtime".  I've tried to move 
D in that direction, but I've only had mild success.  I keep 
picking away at it, and welcome others to join in.

Mike