On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 13:05:31 UTC, sighoya wrote:
But this is already the case for C++ and Rust. Remembering the days back developing in C++ there were a huge amount of memory deallocation side effects because opencv's memory management differs from qt's memory management.
The problem in C++ is that older frameworks have their own ways of doing things for performance reasons or because the C++ standard they started with didn't provide what they needed...
And... most C++ frameworks that are big are old... If you avoid big frameworks then it gets better.
Personally, I find it better to prefer encapsulating manual memory management and not to leak them outside.
Yes. Most programmers don't need system level programming. So if D defines itself to not be a system level programming language then there would be room to improve a lot, but then it should move towards more high level features and prevent the usage of some low level features like untagged non-discriminating unions of pointers. Rust is more high level than D... I think.
