Discussion Thread: DIP 1028--Make @safe the Default--Final Review

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Wednesday, 8 April 2020 at 21:14:14 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 April 2020 at 20:47:40 UTC, Steven 
> Schveighoffer wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Just to make a counter argument against extern(C) being @system 
> by default which is perhaps a bit counter intuitive. The 
> programmer wants get things done fast and in practice the 
> programmer doesn't care about if the FFI functions are @safe or 
> @system. The programmer just want to call the FFI function the 
> @safe function just as usual. In practice a programmer will 
> almost every time put @safe or @trusted for every function that 
> are imported.
>
> [...]

The code of that programmer will never pass a decent code review, 
plain and simple.