My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[Timon Gehr]

On 19.11.21 01:08, forkit wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 17:52:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>
>> Exactly what I said.  The day will come when the world realizes just 
>> how much of a liability an inherently-unsafe language is, and how much 
>> it's costing businesses, and the tables will turn.
>>
>>
>> T
> 
> unsafe really is subjective (and we can learn this fact from observing 
> how different countries, and different people dealt with the pandemic). 
> There is a tolerance for risk, always, up to a point.
> 
> In anycase... C has, and will always have, value.
> 
> I like this statement below:
> 
> "..because we see everything with its real nature in C"
> - quoted from: 
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/vfsxzwrieivwqipicgka@forum.dlang.org
> 
> Any langauge that tries to improve on C, no matter how worthwhile the 
> effort, is inherently deceptive.
> 

I think that statement itself is deceptive. C is not all that close to 
how modern hardware actually operates.