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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).
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.
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@trustedthen@system).Alright, I'll actually dive into the research again...
Oh, I see, it's that D is garbage collected, so really it's more like Java or Python. Also,
@safecode sounds like it's pretty limited - far more limited than non-unsafe Rust.Basically, if a language had been Rust before Rust showed up, Rust would have been a non-event. They solved a problem that was legitimately open at the time.