Has anyone here looked into the security strengths/weaknesses of D? Care to discuss or summarize for the rest of us? Does it inherit the problems of C while trying to improve on C++ et al?
I haven't examined D myself, but I would also be interested if anyone could recommend a good paper or site comparing programming language security features, either for just C-family languages like C/C++, C#, Cyclone, and D, or for a broader spectrum of language types. The closest document to this type of comparison that I've read is section 10 of David Wheeler's excellent Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO, but newer languages like Cyclone and D aren't represented in that section.
-- James Walden, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor of EECS The University of Toledo @ LCCC http://www.eecs.utoledo.edu/~jwalden/
