Earlier today the Biden administration announced an initiative to start shifting federal agencies towards using software written in "safe" languages:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024/02/26/press-release-technical-report/

Nowhere do they present recommendations for specific safe languages, but reference is made to Microsoft's Project Everest (which uses F-star, a semi-provably safe Fsharp derivative) which seems like a broad hint. The Rust folks are probably already declaring victory and patting each other on their backs.

When software vendors are looking over the list of programming languages with safety features suitable for use for contracts with the United States federal government, D should at least be included in the list. It might help drum up some jobs for folks who would like to write D for a living, but are stuck with less-favored languages for lack of industry demand.

I'm not sure how to get it on that list, though, nor whether there even is such a list.

On Monday, 26 February 2024 at 22:41:50 UTC, TTK Ciar wrote:

Hot reaction. "Dont you worry there's no hurry"

https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs

Yes, the said "safe" rust model has problems.

On Monday, 26 February 2024 at 22:41:50 UTC, TTK Ciar wrote:

Some list is here: https://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/software-quality-group/safer-languages

On Monday, 26 February 2024 at 23:16:55 UTC, Sergey wrote:

Good find! Thanks for linking.

Walt should probably be the one to message them with reasons to include D (which the NIST invites on that page), but if he doesn't, perhaps someone should.

On Tuesday, 27 February 2024 at 00:17:25 UTC, TTK Ciar wrote:

The linked page has following contact info:

"Please contact us if you think something should be included.
If it has all the characteristics of a safer language, we will be happy to add it.
You can contact us at samate(at)nist(dot)gov."

On Monday, 26 February 2024 at 23:16:55 UTC, Sergey wrote:

If someone could get D on the NIST list, it would help me out. Almost all my work is on government contracts.