On 04.01.2014 03:09, NoUseForAName wrote:
This piece (recently seen on the Hacker News front page):
http://rust-class.org/pages/using-rust-for-an-undergraduate-os-course.html
.. includes a pretty damning assessment of D as "unsafe" (compared to
Rust) and generally doomed. I remember hearing Walter Bright talking a
lot about "safe code" during a D presentation. Was that about a
different kind of safety? Is the author just wrong? Basically I want to
hear the counterargument (if there is one).
He gets his assumptions about D wrong, but I find it nice that he
decided to show his students there are other safer languages to write
operating systems on.
If UNIX did not widespread outside academia, most likely C would not
have reached the status it achieved.
--
Paulo
