Reasons to use D (over alternatives like Rust)

bauss jj_1337 at live.dk
Thu Feb 6 02:33:09 UTC 2020


On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 at 21:20:51 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 08:55:34PM +0000, IGotD- via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 at 20:51:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh 
>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 08:17:46PM +0000, IGotD- via 
>> > Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> > > BTW, I'm not sure if you have noticed, Firefox has become 
>> > > quite buggy lately.
>> > [...]
>> > 
>> > What kind of bugs, though?  If it's not memory-related bugs 
>> > I'm highly skeptical it has any connection with the language 
>> > of choice.
> [...]
>> Behavioral bugs like page not rendered correctly, sometimes 
>> tab is completely blank. I just wanted to connect to how some 
>> people think that Rust we lead to bug free programs which is a 
>> fantasy.
>
> Logic bugs have nothing to do with language.  You can write 
> wrong programs in any language! :-P
>
> (Well, maybe except that esolang where there's a directive 
> called "do what I mean, not what I say". That might be the only 
> exception to this.)
>
>
> T

Those bugs could be memory bugs tho since it has to do with 
rendering so it could easily have to do with missing allocations 
and/or freeing of memory that shouldn't happen.


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