Shouldn't safety be the default.

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 26 December 2023 at 12:39:46 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 December 2023 at 12:00:13 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe 
> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>
> The earlier proposal would have killed D. I no longer recall 
> the details but it would have been miserable to interoperate 
> with C code under that proposal. And without C 
> interoperability, D is dead.
>
> All that's needed is a compiler switch rather than breaking 
> everyone's code. Or an easy way to shut it off. Neither of 
> those were on the table.

Rust, Go, Swift, C# are doing just fine with the requirement that 
C interop must be explicitly marked as unsafe.