Go vs. D [was Re: Rust vs Dlang]

[Paul]

> The trick is to make something which is powerful and flexible 
> for the
> experienced user and yet not too daunting for the newbie. I 
> don't know how
> well we've succeeded on that front, but I'm sure that more 
> tutorials and
> better documentation and whatnot would help.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Jonathan you've answered some many of me questions and I wanted 
to comment on this thought.  I am a very poor programmer who has 
only used languages as needed to get a job done and never 
becoming good at any of them.  I picked up D to start developing 
some text processing tools.  I started with other guys in our 
office building these tools in Python but then learned I could 
actually generate tiny .exe's and not have to have Python 
installed on systems that I needed my tools on.  The slices and 
associative arrays are awesome.  I've acquired the habit of using 
the time functions and printing out how long it takes the program 
to do its work.  245ms! 657ms! LOL.  D rocks!  It is extremely 
complex and 90% of it is over my head but making my own little 
.exe's that blast through things orders of magnitude faster than 
the scripting languages is fun.  Keep up the good work all!