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

[rikki cattermole]

On 27/03/2020 10:26 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/26/2020 10:00 AM, jmh530 wrote:
>> I was talking about a hypothetical python person thinking about 
>> learning D, not about me personally.
> 
> Consider how the Rust folk have been successful at getting people to 
> entirely re-engineer their programs and data structures and learn an 
> entirely different language to get a small increment in memory safety.
> 
> Rust's marketing department is very good.

It is a much younger language with people who signed on for this.

Its a bit late to take their approach.