Gary Willoughby: "Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers"
cym13 via Digitalmars-d-announce
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Sun Mar 29 14:50:27 PDT 2015
On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 21:06:28 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 19:44:01 UTC, cym13 wrote:
>> On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 19:09:52 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> I like this article very much. IMO python's generators and
>> list comprehensions are the two things that are the most
>> difficult to replace when switching to another language. Hence
>> I would explicitely make a link with list comprehensions in
>> the UFCS paragraph because it is not obvious. I would also add
>> a little paragraph about ranges to make the link from
>> generators (but maybe not with an example as it may be scarier
>> than it really is).
>>
>> In the same way of making the parallel with python, many
>> developers seem to use python for web serveurs nowadays. It
>> would be great to include a link to vibe.d in the article.
>> Something simple like "or web server developments with vibe.d"
>> thrown in a sentence.
>>
>> Also, but this one would be a sensible addition, I'm sorry to
>> see that nothing is said about purity or safety. I definitely
>> think that it can be a good selling argument, even if it goes
>> beyond the goal "Writting Python in D".
>>
>> Otherwise, I find the article very good. It emphasis the good
>> points, even those that are often forgotten like dub (because
>> pypi is so important in python).
>>
>> I'll try giving it to some friends to see what they think
>> about it :)
>
>
> should we add a link to the wiki and ask author if we could
> mirror there ?
>
> This section on wiki looks like it could with a bit of fleshing
> out!
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Coming_From/Python
I just seen what you did in the wiki, that's great! I don't have
much time to invest tonight but I'll definitely do my part of the
job in a day or two.
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