Is borrow checker the right thing for D?

[victoroak]

On Saturday, 17 August 2019 at 20:42:46 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>
> I don't understand why you think I think using Rust for 
> inspiration is a bad thing. I'm not opposed to doing what Rust 
> does. Rust _actually does some version of what I suggested in 
> my last post_. The problem is that it seems that very few 
> people actively participating on this forum actually understand 
> what it is that Rust does. (E.g., a very common misconception 
> is that Rust unsafe is like D @system. Rust unsafe is actually 
> like D @trusted. Another misconception is that Rust ensures 
> that raw mutable pointers don't alias.)
>

Rust do have unsafe functions that can only be called inside 
unsafe blocks so it's like @system functions in D. But I agree 
with what you are saying, we need a better understanding on the 
subject before trying to push it into D. Sorry for 
misunderstanding what you said before.