On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 11:38:51 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > @safe still isn't quite there yet, because it doesn't quite prevent all > of the things it ought to prevent.
Well, that makes it suboptimal, certainly. But having almost no existing IO options that are @safe makes it unusable, or only marginally usable. I'll take suboptimal over unusable any day.