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

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On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 19:09:52 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 02:15:38 UTC, cym13 wrote:
>
>> Urr.... As an active Python developer, I find that one pretty 
>> harsh. It's not that we need to enforce good style, it's that 
>> we take good style as granted and choose to lighten it 
>> consequently.
>>
>> On the contrary I think that D has everything to attract a 
>> pythonista. Most new, trendy languages like Go or Rust are to 
>> down a level to easily suit a python's formated mind, and I 
>> guess that if most python developers come to switch language 
>> for performance issues (like myself) D's code safety system is 
>> definitely very appealing because python's safety is... 
>> well... ^^"
>>
>> Moreover, it is possible to reach a good expressiveness (maybe 
>> not as good as python, but that's the whole goal of python so 
>> there's no shame in not matching it).
>>
>> UFCS FTW!
>
> As an active Python developer, what would you add to or change 
> about the following:
> http://bitbashing.io/2015/01/26/d-is-like-native-python.html

while it mentions concurrency/parallel, a quick example of 
showing how easy it is to do parallel operations in D would 
probably benefit considering python's current state of 
parallelism.