Feedback on Átila's Vision for D

[welkam]

On Thursday, 17 October 2019 at 19:00:47 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
>> In D's  case 99% of all problems are due to lack of resources 
>> so
>
> Not resources. Process... Expanding the feature set... Rather 
> than narrowing down the focus.
>
> Like, there is no point in planning for a borrow checker if you 
> don't have people with the right know how and have plenty on 
> the plate.  It's a great idea, but probably too late.  That's 
> not a dismissive statement, that's just realism.
>
> So why was it put on the table?
First its enhancement not a problem. But maybe its distinction 
without a difference. D already have memory safety guaranties but 
it relies on GC to do that. What Walter wants is for simple
void* p = malloc();
free(p);
to be marked @safe. Just by looking at it its clear that is safe 
but current compiler cant prove it. So he wants to implement 
additional checks based on control flow graph. This is not like 
Rust's borrow checker. Its much simpler and one motivated man can 
do it.

> As I stated elsewhere in this thread, languages become popular 
> because they have a use case where they are superior (even if 
> the language isn't)

Go, Rust, Swift, Kotlin all new languages had backer. I wish that 
language adoption was as you said but real word data contradicts 
your view. The only language might fit your example is Ruby but 
it wasn't that popular.

I feel like whenever I say AEOA you read that and the go to talk 
about ÆØÅ. Close but not what I was talking. I really dont enjoy 
that kind of conversation.

Oftopic: https://youtu.be/f488uJAQgmw