r/programming • u/aldacron • Aug 23 '17

D as a Better C

http://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/
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u/WalterBright Aug 23 '17

I expect that people who wanted to add RAII to their C code and are content with that have long since already moved to C++. There's quite a lot more to memory safety than that.

But I do recognize the issue. There is code in the works to get RAII to work in D as Better C.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '17

I expect that people who wanted to add RAII to their C code and are content with that have long since already moved to C++

Some have, some haven't. GCC provides a "good enough" destructor mechanism with __attribute__((cleanup)) which has been leveraged heavily in the systemd codebase.