D is our last hope

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Dec 18 05:46:20 UTC 2023


On 12/8/2023 1:06 AM, Hors wrote:
> This is one of biggest mistakes in dlang's design. They tried to be "everything" 
> (being both garbage collected and not, being both safe and unsafe system 
> language...), it backfired because as you said, you always need to exclude some 
> people or features.

I often use a mix of gc and malloc in a program - they each have their uses. 
It's sort of like using a struct or using a class - they coexist fine, and you 
can mix and match as you please.

Rust also has both safe and unsafe code.



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