Google's take on memory safety

[M. M.]

On Wednesday, 6 March 2024 at 17:16:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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> Also, when is D gonna get @safe by default?!  Seriously, it's 
> been years.  Why are we still stuck at the same old stalemate 
> over something so irritatingly trivial like having extern(C) 
> *not* default to @safe?! It should have been a 5-minute 
> decision, yet at the rate things are going it will soon be a 
> 5-year decision. If even that. Let's hope it's not going to be 
> a 50-year decision(!). :-/

Yeah, with all these waves that the US government with their call 
for usage of safe programming languages, it would be nice to have 
had made @safe the default before this call came. Now, with the 
explicit call to not use C/C++, making extern(C) not @safe sounds 
like a no-brainer to me.