• lad@programming.dev
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    10 hours ago

    It’s a dig at people who don’t want to switch to memory-safe languages like rust.

    Now that’s a stretch, it could be anything (no, it couldn’t, although I think this may have application to some other pairs of languages)

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      8 hours ago

      Yeah, Rust is simply the big one right now. It could just as easily apply to people in the 1960’s who didn’t want to adopt structured programming, or a compiler at all.

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        I personally prefer the memory safety tools offered by D over Rust. D also doesn’t come with const by default, and you can even opt out of the RAII stuff a certain graphics driver developer boasted about in the Linux developer mailings (RAII can be a bad for optimization).

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          I feel like this has come up before, and D is not memory safe. It has some helper-type features, but at the end of the day it is still C-like.

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            Not if you opt in it. You can even put @safe: in the beginning of your D source code, then you’ll have a memory safe D (you have to opt out by using @trusted then @system).

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      I mean, that’s just my interpretation. I don’t think it’s a stretch though, switching to memory safe languages like rust has been pretty big recently.

      How did you interpret the comic?

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        8 hours ago

        I should have added a ‘/s’, but I thought it is somewhat obvious, it really reminds of all the ‘git gud at C instead of doing Rust’