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

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On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 16:09:08 UTC, Chris wrote:
> It need not be new, it needs to be good. That's all. I don't 
> understand this obsession people have with new things, as if 
> they were automatically good only because they are new. Why not 
> try square wheels? Uh, it's new, you know.

New things can be cool for a toy language, but not for a 
production language. The latter needs polish and support (IDE 
etc).

Just pointed out the social dynamics where Go/D communities are 
not all that different. There's probably a difference between 
programmers that juggle 5-7 languages and programmers that stick 
to 1 language: «it is just A tool among many» vs «it is THE 
tool». I think you see this expressed in both Go and D 
communities.