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

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On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 20:20:07 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 03/26/2015 09:47 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> It seems to me that every significant but one feature of Go 
>> has a pretty
>> much direct analog in D
>
> I'm no Go expert, but AIUI, Go seems to be one of those 
> languages that considers *lacking* certain features to *be* a 
> feature. Ie the whole "minimalism" approach to language design. 
> For people who value that (not for me personally though), it's 
> a feature D doesn't offer and deliberately doesn't try to.

there's a difference between minimalism and blatantly not 
adopting core advances in language design over the past 40 years.