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Linus Torvalds to Hector Martin: 'Maybe the problem is you'
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More akin to Elon insisting the cybertruck is the way of the future, and people just keep buying Rivians and internal combustion vehicles.
Especially as there's D, a language that when used in betterC mode, is on-par with C, minus the archaic precompiler, which is replaced with very powerful metaprogramming capabilities.
D didn't catch on for many good reasons... And it never will. Zig has way more momentum (and it better!) as a "better C", and obviously the main draw of Rust is memory safety without GC which D doesn't have.
D has a way for GC free operation, the easiest way is by using it in BetterC mode. The harder way is writing your own runtime without a GC.
Yes but that isn't memory safe.