"Competitive Advantage with D" is one of the keynotes at C++Now 2017

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 24.04.2017 13:33, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Monday, 24 April 2017 at 06:37:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> The trouble is, one cannot look at a piece of code and tell if it
>> follows the rules or not.
>>
>> I.e. it's not about it being possible to write memory safe code in C
>> or C++ (it is), it's about verifying an arbitrary piece of code as
>> being memory safe.
>
> I don't think D and Rust fare any better than modern C++ as far as
> ARBITRARY code goes. Swift and Java does...

Swift allows raw pointer manipulation. Java implementations expose 
similar unsafe features. JVMs have bugs. Also, Java's type system is 
unsound.