Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

[ponce via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 21:19:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> 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.

Accurate. Actually C++ is pretty much a non-problem around here, 
not my experience in other C++ shops.