D Language Foundation July 2023 Quarterly Meeting Summary

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Saturday, 29 July 2023 at 18:47:47 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Saturday, 29 July 2023 at 14:15:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I really hope that this plan will be reconsidered. Users of 
> @safe have already opted into stricter-than-default checks by 
> putting the @safe attribute on their code. Forcing them to pass 
> an additional compiler flag to say "no, really, I mean it" and 
> having that flag bundle together both safety-related and 
> non-safety related warnings will simply discourage D 
> programmers from using @safe in the first place (if they 
> haven't been already!), and render it near-useless for anyone 
> who does.
>
> [...]

+1

AGAIN: there's nothing wrong in maintaining codebases, especially 
for *vulnerabilities*.
And yes, that also apply to 3rd part libraries.

/P