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The unicyclist on the left is saying the bicyclist is only riding a bike because they don't have enough skill for a unicycle. The unicyclist on the right is saying they can't learn to ride a bike because they've spent too much of their life riding a unicycle. It's a dig at people who don't want to switch to memory-safe languages like rust.
Now that's a stretch, it could be anything (no, it couldn't, although I think this may have application to some other pairs of languages)
Yeah, Rust is simply the big one right now. It could just as easily apply to people in the 1960's who didn't want to adopt structured programming, or a compiler at all.
I personally prefer the memory safety tools offered by D over Rust. D also doesn't come with const by default, and you can even opt out of the RAII stuff a certain graphics driver developer boasted about in the Linux developer mailings (RAII can be a bad for optimization).
I feel like this has come up before, and D is not memory safe. It has some helper-type features, but at the end of the day it is still C-like.
Not if you opt in it. You can even put
@safe:in the beginning of your D source code, then you'll have a memory safe D (you have to opt out by using@trustedthen@system).Alright, I'll actually dive into the research again...
Oh, I see, D is garbage collected, so really it's more like Java or Python. Maybe that's what I'm remembering. Also,
@safecode sounds like it's pretty limited - far more limited than non-unsafe Rust.Basically, if a language had been Rust before Rust showed up, Rust would have been a non-event. They solved a problem that was legitimately open at the time.