Gary Willoughby: "Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers"

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On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 10:17:42 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 22:30:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
> Grøstad wrote:
>> Downplaying other languages makes the D crowd look desperate...
>
> Heh, there were whole sites like phpain (can't find it now) and 
> something similar for C++.

The feature set of C++ does cause maintenance issues in real 
world codebases if you let programmers roam about freely and 
"redefine" the syntax/semantics. More so than C with it's limited 
feature set. Are you sure that D does not have similar issues? I 
have no idea how Go fares, but orthogonal simplicity could be an 
advantage in real world code bases where you read code other 
people have written/mutated.

What I find interesting is that Python also has a feature set for 
redefining semantics that should cause C++ like issues. Still, I 
find most Python libraries I use to be fairly clean and 
intuitive. Maybe the fact that Python is untyped and 
non-performance-oriented makes programmers constrain themselves 
more from producing spaghetti libraries...?