On 19/10/2024 14:57, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Oct 19, 2024 at 7:53:14 PM, Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
I feel very safe with freepascal. I don't know what you are talking
about.
It depends on the programmer who is in front of the computer.
We’re talking about new users and programmers that don’t have 25 years
of experience with manual memory management. All news languages have
some form of non-manual memory management where you don’t have to
worry about memory leaks and double-frees etc.. leaving Pascal behind.
That’s all I’m saying.
NOTE: the below is NOT about ARC. It is about the implication that ARC
== Safety (in the environment that we have)
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But if you are talking about memory safety for new users, the ARC is a
drop in the ocean. Sure it might catch some cases...
And, if you add that every variable needs to be initialized safely by
the compiler, then it catches yet a few more. And at the same time you
yet again make the compiler less useful for other projects, that are
better off without this. So you don't gain users, you just change which
users you have...
But, also it still isn't save. You can still do
MyObj := TFooClass(Other.Tag);
And since examples exists, new users will do...
And then, it still goes wrong.
So remove all pointers, all typecasts, all ....
If you remove all typecasts, then why have types?
Only then we have an entirely new language...
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