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

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 20:58:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/27/2015 1:35 PM, weaselcat wrote:
>> there's a difference between minimalism and blatantly not 
>> adopting core advances
>> in language design over the past 40 years.
>
> Yes, and there's also a difference between gratuitous 
> complexity and finding the underlying simplicity.
>
> It's a tricky thing finding the sweet spot.

I don't disagree, but Go is definitely not in that sweet spot - 
it's crippled by its benevolent dictators for the sake of being 
crippled.