> The number of relatively obvious mistakes should decrease with experience
Yes, and the kind of mistakes I make have changed. Now they are usually a failure to understand the problem correctly, or are simply typos.
> Optional tools with no general enforcement
That's right. The tools don't work unless you use them. With D the idea is to build the tool into the language itself. I once annoyed the Coverity folks by saying D's purpose is to put Coverity out of business.
Yes, and the kind of mistakes I make have changed. Now they are usually a failure to understand the problem correctly, or are simply typos.
> Optional tools with no general enforcement
That's right. The tools don't work unless you use them. With D the idea is to build the tool into the language itself. I once annoyed the Coverity folks by saying D's purpose is to put Coverity out of business.