On: Specification for the D Programming Language

[giancarlostoro]

If it's an article that hasn't been updated since 2001 sure. But this has been updated fairly recently, in this year.

[laurentlb → giancarlostoro]

What are the biggest recent changes?

[WalterBright → laurentlb]

Plenty of action going on:

https://dlang.org/changelog/2.090.0.html

[qznc → WalterBright]

DIP1021 is one step toward a larger goal outlined in the blog post 'Ownership and Borrowing in D'. What are the next steps?

https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/accepted/DIP1...

[WalterBright → qznc]

A prototype for the O/B system:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/10586

[giancarlostoro → WalterBright]

This is really fascinating, are there some benefits you foresee of this addition to D? I know the O/B system has been popularized by Rust, but have not really thought about it outside of Rust, is this an efforts towards -betterC or will it be used towards those efforts?

[WalterBright → giancarlostoro]

An O/B system is a way to:

1. eliminate double frees 2. eliminate use-after-free 3. eliminate memory leaks 4. using undefined pointers

when using explicit memory management like malloc/free. Any D application, including DasBetterC, that uses explicit memory management can benefit from it.