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

cym13 via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
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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