My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

Atila Neves atila.neves at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 13:54:26 UTC 2021


On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 09:28:08 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 06:54:33 UTC, Paulo Pinto 
> wrote:
>>
>> C folks like to manage their own memory and they get it wrong 
>> most of the time.
>>
>
> god help us all, if that assertion is true.

It is. It always has been, and decades and many tools later, it 
still is. This isn't a matter of opinion, it's provable fact.

> (which of course, it's not).

Huge if true.

> 'some of the time', sure, even the best, but 'most of the 
> time'..

All of the time, if one only counts projects of a certain size 
and up. Of course it's trivial to get it right in a 50 line 
program.

> that is hyperbole - except perhaps, in the case of novices.

Is Walter a novice? Am I? Is Andrei? Is \<insert name here>...?

I have no idea how or why this myth of the "sufficiently 
competent C programmer" persists. They don't exist.

> The tools we have available these days, to assist C 
> programmers, is something to factored in when speaking about 
> the C language.

I've used them.

> btw. C powers the world.

So does burning coal, but I wouldn't recommend that either.



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