On Saturday, 4 January 2014 at 04:26:24 UTC, Kelet wrote:
Ultimately, it sounds like Rust primarily takes the 'default on' approach for things like safety and immutability, whereas D takes the 'default off' approach.
Sometimes the Rust approach is simply different. For instance, Rust disables global variables by default; (#[feature(globs)];) is needed to enable them, and all accesses must be declared unsafe. D on the other hand just makes them all thread-local, requiring explicit 'shared' declarations. I think the default D approach here may actually be safer, and is definitely more convenient.
