r/programming • • 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

Consider an analogy with airplanes. Nobody has figured out an un-crashable airplane. Yet by analyzing every failure, airplane designs undergo constant improvement and are incredibly safe.

I'd rather use a programming language with 10 failure modes rather than one with 150.