Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 15 October 2021 at 13:21:25 UTC, russhy wrote:
> On Friday, 15 October 2021 at 11:57:28 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Friday, 15 October 2021 at 10:58:14 UTC, bauss wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> This is fine. But here is the deal: that means D cannot have a 
>> philosophy on safety. Or have closure allocated on the GC by 
>> default. Or a gazilion other things.
>>
>> It's the same problem, just in another dimension: a decision 
>> is made, ut then consequences are not accepted.
>
> using allocators aware APIs solves all of this, look at zig!
>
> it is a problem already solved, use allocators and don't assume 
> one is using GC or other means
>
> --
>
> on the nullable thingy, i agree 100%, we now got 2 way for 
> ``null``
>
>
> - ``null`` keyword
>
> - ``isNull`` method
>
>
> nice! in the std! it's standard now!..

Except safety, using Zig is no better than Modula-2, as it 
doesn't prevent use-after-free bugs.