Iterators and Ranges: Comparing C++ to D to Rust

[Petar]

On Tuesday, 15 June 2021 at 10:53:20 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 June 2021 at 10:13:07 UTC, Araq wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 15 June 2021 at 08:22:07 UTC, Petar Kirov 
>> [ZombineDev] wrote:
>>>[...]
>>
>> Er, performance pitfalls can be found with a profiler. Crashes 
>> are much harder to track down. If I have to pick between them, 
>> I take the performance pitfalls, as they are much easier to 
>> fix. At least for your outlined `.retro.map.length` snippets.
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Beauty is subjective, safety isn't.
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Wrong forum for that.
>
> +1 We already have enough languages where performance trumps 
> safety.

The real problem is when the safe code is not fast enough and 
people rewrite it in an unsafe language.