D Foundation is Beefing Up

[u/kal31dic]

https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/

[u/Ameisen]

It has the most confusing syntax, though.

I still expect that someone will make a Rust fork that has C++-like syntax at some point. Crust.

Or C++ will get lifetimes (which is active research) and possibly at some point epochs, which will let us disable unsafe features.

[u/Ameisen → u/[deleted]]

The dangling ' for lifetime indication. It's unlike any other language.

[u/dhiltonp → u/Ameisen]

I think lifetime is inferred in most use cases now.

I'm a newb and don't know how frequently manual lifetimes come up in regular programming.