One of problems faced me in C programming is hacking data with C code that some hackers do with C code which make me needs more tools to protect my C code, but I don't have good resources in my current time, while I noticed that D code is more secure than C code by mean it will be more useful to do my codes in my current time.

My question is, to which extent D code is secure and helping in protect data?

On Thursday, 4 August 2022 at 23:11:36 UTC, pascal111 wrote:

Probably the biggest safety features of D are bounds checking for arrays, garbage collection, and default initialization of variables.

If you use @safe, you can get even better protection, at the cost of some minor restrictions. But even without that, D is a lot safer than C.

On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 01:46:35 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:

I noticed the word "@safe" but didn't read about its definition yet to know what it does, but I heard about "garbage collection", and yes it is good modern technique.

On Thursday, 4 August 2022 at 23:11:36 UTC, pascal111 wrote:

One of the reasons that C is considered an "unsafe" language is because
of libc. And this is due to three reasons (at least in my view):

1. libc is a low level library and as every low level library, it allows you
   to have a lot of control but you must know what you're doing. But even
   when you do, humans do make mistakes and we forget things....
2. libc doesn't have the best design so programmers can really mess up
   and not even know it....
3. libc is a limited library (at least after the basic needs) so people have to
   write their own code. Compared to having a standard library who's open-source
   and anyone can use, a library that has been written by a developer only for
   the needs of the current program means that it will always reflect the quality
   of the developer himself/herself. At the other point, the standard library will
   be developed by a team of very experienced programmers (expect when n00bs
   like me design programming languages and libraries...). This is important because
   these people will do less mistakes and even when they do, the community will
   try to improve things here and there. Proper testing is another thing software
   written by very experienced people have. While beginners tend to avoid them
   like plague...

The third one is probably the biggest reason. D has its own library that builds on
top of libc and it's called phobos (bonus for its amazing name!). For that reason,
D is mostly a safer language than C. Of course, D is as low level as C and you have the
ability to use low level features and not use phobos but only libc (check about BetterC).
You can also, use pointers, allocate memory manually, do system calls (and write inline
assembly in general) and do pretty much whatever you can do in C. If you do it, then D
will be as unsafe as C. So it really comes down to the language features and the libraries
that are used. Hope that solved your mysteries ;)