Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:30:59 UTC, ponce wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 18:25:39 UTC, francesco.cattoglio 
> wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:10:56 UTC, ponce wrote:
>>> None of them has Visual Studio integration with debugging 
>>> support and that is pretty important for native and 
>>> enterprise programmers.
>> If I remember correctly, just 2 month ago someone was 
>> explaining
>> how they lost a commercial user because D debugging experience
>> was still not good enough by a long shot. And in my daily use,
>> debug experience is still subpar on windows.
>>
>>> only to discover it is not fun enough and fun is more 
>>> important than "memory safety without GC".
>> WHAT? Syntax is boring, but I don't get the sense of the 
>> sentence
>
> Right, might be personal judgement, at this point I was in 
> rant-mode. :)
>
> Rust is supposed to replace C++, and it happens working in C++ 
> since years, I can't help but notice we actually have very few 
> memory safety problems, to the point that I question that it's 
> something worth worrying about....[cutted]

Somehow I feel you are in the very lucky position of having top 
notch colleagues, with small attrition in team members and budget 
to buy C++ sanitation tools.

Many of the projects I worked for hadn't that luck.

Although I have spent part of Sunday doing C++ coding with the 
Android NDK, I don't miss those long weeks at work, looking for 
that pointer causing a server core dump, only to find out it was 
a double free/delete or an out of bounds error in a complete 
different module several minutes before the crash.

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Paulo