More evidence that memory safety is the future for programming languages

[JN]

On Saturday, 28 March 2020 at 20:24:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22711391
>
> Fitting in with the push for @safe as the default, and the 
> @live Ownership/Borrowing system for D.
>
> We can either get on the bus or get run over by the bus.

Over time we learned that opt-in safety doesn't work and @safe 
should be the default. Do you think the same will happen with 
@live?