Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

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On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:38:12 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Are you always able to detect them? I think languages (and 
> programmers) that don't have a strict attitude toward memory 
> safety will be slowly left behind in the few next years. D is 
> lacking in this (and the scoping management should be able to 
> plug some holes, and in the meantime there is this: 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4277 ).

There are tools to do that: 
https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-inspector-xe
When we do have a memory safety bug, these tools help, and then I 
think "this wouldn't have happened in D" even without @safe. So I 
don't think D lacking in this.