A diatribe on Rust

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On Thursday, 13 May 2021 at 02:09:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksTyCQwHGro&t=3317s
>
> I wonder where D stands with regard to the author's various 
> comparisons and contrasts between Rust and C++.

I agree with the author for most of the part. I predicted that 
more and more people would notice some of the inconveniences with 
Rust, and the popularity will plateau.

For some years ago I did an investigation what language was the 
best to replace some of my C++ code (both embedded and 
application code) and I found Rust to be too inconvenient. This 
eventually led me to D which seems to be the language that can do 
most what I was looking for and is as well kind of forgiving.

This also makes me want to warn the D maintainers not to try to 
shoe horn features that you find in Rust into D too quickly. Give 
it more time and see what features can stand the test of time in 
Rust, what was a fad and what was not. D has recently taken too 
much impression from Rust with @safe as default and borrow 
checker (which isn't a new memory management method). Something I 
don't care that much about.