How I use D

[Cym13]

On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 12:18:02 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>
> I'll bite:
>
> I've been defending:
>    - unsafe by default,
>    - throw by default,
>    - impure by default,
>    - mutable by default
>
> for years. To me those defaults are the right ones, and it 
> warms me up that, as it seems, your D usage would be made 
> _almost impossible_ if the permissive default changed to a 
> strict one.
>
> I've been in a similar situation where you have to create an 
> internal tool as fast as possible because of limited political 
> support, and all those features  - that are completely rational 
> and acceptable in the right context - may reveal a liability in 
> the trenches.
>
> So I hope people will keep the important use cases of _bad 
> programs_, may I say in mind when improving D.

I have mixed feelings about that. On one hand I absolutely agree 
with you, if these features were in place D would probably not be 
nearly as useful to me as it is now.

On the other hand, I spend my days exploiting security issues and 
I think that these features would be effective to fight real bugs 
that have real consequences. I don't want to be suject to these 
limitations, but if more people were subjected to them I would 
have a harder time finding bugs which is good.

It wouldn't solve all issues of course (most issues are at a much 
higher level such as forgetting to protect a webpage with 
authentication) but it would help.

(Even if I'd be stuck)