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

[Atila Neves]

On Saturday, 28 March 2020 at 13:53:28 UTC, Arine wrote:
> On Friday, 27 March 2020 at 09:26:35 UTC, 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's not marketing. They created a solution to a problem no one 
> else has been able to.

I think they created a solution to a problem 99.9% of programmers 
don't have, which is "how to be memory safe without using a 
tracing GC". The reason it's marketing genius is it'll convince 
people who really really think "GCs are slow" without ever having 
run a profiler. Genius, I tells ya. Genius.