[zombinedev]

It is not described in the betterC page as these features are not new for D. The betterC page only describes the differences versus the full D feature set.

Documentation for the individual features mentioned:

http://dlang.org/spec/function.html#safe-functions

> array overflow checking

http://dlang.org/spec/arrays.html#bounds

> guaranteed initialization of locals

http://dlang.org/spec/type.html http://dlang.org/spec/declaration.html#void_init

> no more stray pointers into expired stack frames

DIP1000 describes D's scoped pointers approach to memory safety - https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1000.md. This is work in progress and the document doesn't reflect latest state of things. Conceptually, scoped slices/pointers/references are similar to concept of borrowing that you guys have in Rust.

[steveklabnik]

Great, thanks! That makes sense, but it wasn't clear to me in the post.