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

[jmh530]

On Friday, 27 March 2020 at 09:26:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
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>
> Consider how the Rust folk have been successful at getting 
> people to entirely re-engineer their programs and data 
> structures and learn an entirely different language to get a 
> small increment in memory safety.

There are use cases for Rust where an increment in memory safety 
without sacrificing performance is important. However, I rarely 
hear of anyone doing anything that interests me personally in 
Rust. I'm more interested in statistics and stuff like that.

>
> Rust's marketing department is very good.

Rust has the support of Mozilla in its marketing.