Discussion Thread: DIP 1028--Make @safe the Default--Final Review

[bachmeier]

On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 at 14:10:18 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:

> Everything else in the DIP is possibly annoying to deal with 
> but at least doesn't silently destroy the meaning of @safe.

To be perfectly honest, I can't imagine D being a sensible option 
for someone wanting to work heavily with C code if you have to 
add pointless annotations and constantly deal with compiler 
errors. It's not a matter of annoyance, it's simply impractical 
to add that kind of overhead, particularly if someone else is 
involved. If you're using C, you're well aware that it's not 
going to be safe. Rust was designed for *writing* safe code, not 
for wrapping C libraries, which is maybe the main use of D right 
now.