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

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On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 12:48:04 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> My personal opinion about the article - people may hate D 
> equally for being "too pragmatic". That

Yeah, well, both the D/Go communities use the term "pragmatic" to 
gloss over underwhelming design issues in D/Go, and makes a point 
of how D/Go is deliberately not being a research language, yet 
still claim that D/Go bring novel features... although neither D 
or Go bring anything new to the table. I.e.just about all the 
major concepts in D/Go are 30-50 years old...

It is mostly a case of inexperienced programmers not knowing PL 
history becoming fanbois of new languages. Kind of like the OS 
wars of the 1990s.