On Tuesday, 14 July 2015 at 03:35:08 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/87749
Safety is one of the more important things that D offers over
C++, even though people keep saying C++11/14 makes D
unimportant.
Uhm, no. The linked page concludes that security-oriented
software should be written in languages that trap on integer
overflow by default.
D is not better off by having modulo-arithmetics, that means you
cannot even catch overflow related issues by semantic analysis,
since overflow does not exist. There are C-like languages that
ensures that overflow is not possible at compile time (by putting
limits on loop iterations and doing heavy duty proofs).
