[Not really OT] Crowdstrike Analysis: It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 26 July 2024 at 22:26:03 UTC, Don Allen wrote:
> On Friday, 26 July 2024 at 08:57:42 UTC, aberba wrote:
>> On Thursday, 25 July 2024 at 20:18:27 UTC, Serg Gini wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 25 July 2024 at 12:24:27 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nvidia manager, curious about what programming language we 
>>>> are using in DeepGlance as I claimed we care for memory 
>>>> safety.
>>>
>>> I bet core tech (eye tracking and object detection) is C++ 
>>> code :)
>>
>> I honestly don't get why D after 20yrs is being dragged (by a 
>> vocal minority) to become like rust. Shouldn't they be using 
>> rust already? A lot of very important new code is still being 
>> written in C++ (irrespective of its flaws). It's not like you 
>> can't write strict safe code in D either. Devs aren't stupid, 
>> it doesn't matter if strict is turned on by default or not at 
>> this point. They know what to do. There's way too many 
>> existing code in D to be dragging our feet with rust which is 
>> still niche by the way.
>
> I could not agree more. Trying to glue Rust-like features onto 
> this language really feels like ill-considered imitation, not a 
> good look for a language that has already been accused of 
> jumping on bandwagons. It also does not make technical sense to 
> me. I've written comparable amounts of Rust and D and for 
> ordinary applications without real-time constraints, I much 
> prefer D, so I don't have to become an involuntary part of 
> Rust's complex approach to memory management. Saying equivalent 
> things in D is so much easier easier than in Rust. But the more 
> baroque D becomes, the harder it will be for newcomers to find 
> the subset of the language that works for them.

In that regard, C# with the low level improvements introduced and 
improved upon since C# 7 (currently C# 12), alongside Native AOT, 
already did that for me.

Similarly, Java with Panama and Graal native image, Swift, Go 
(even if I avoid it as much as possible), and Kotlin/Native keeps 
improving.

This is what I was looking forward back when I got "The D 
Programming Language" book, instead,   the ecosystems listed 
above either catched up in missing features where D had an edge, 
or sprung to the existence, creating much bigger ecosystems, 
while safety keeps being discussed on the forums, GC or not GC, 
and so on the eternal discussion.