Walter Bright wrote:
grauzone wrote:
If you mean memory safety, then yes and will probably forever be for
all practical uses (unless D gets implemented on a Java or .net like VM).
A VM is neither necessary nor sufficient to make a language memory safe.
It's all in the semantics of the language.
In practice, the big disadvantage which D has is that it can make calls
to C libraries which are not necessarily memory safe -- and this is an
important feature of the language. Dealing with the external,
uncheckable libraries is always going to be a weak point. Both Java and
.net have mitigated this by rewriting a fair chunk of an OS in their
libraries. That's probably never going to happen for D.
