DMD 2.100, bring ont he attribute soup

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri May 27 05:06:54 UTC 2022


On 5/26/2022 8:07 PM, rikki cattermole wrote:
> I want lifetime checks to work,

So do I. But nobody has figured out how to make this work without strongly 
impacting the programmer.


> I want users of my libraries to be able to use 
> my code without caring about stuff like memory lifetimes and be strongly likely 
> to never hit an issue even with concurrency. I want the average programmer to be 
> able to use my stuff without having to care about the little details.

The garbage collector does this famously.


> DIP1000 so far does not appear to be working towards a design that meets these 
> goals.

Rust is famous for forcing programmers to not just recode their programs, but 
redesign them from the ground up. How they managed to sell that is amazing.


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