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[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 23:02:38 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
> Go - they value simplicity and robust run-time (Go's GC breaks 
> news with sub-milisecond pauses on large heaps). The sheer 
> complexity of D is enough for it to be a hard sell, D's GC is 
> coup de grace.

I have never understood the appeal of Go. With respect to the GC, 
there's this: 
https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-911ef4f8bd8e#.o6pxesvuw

With respect to "simplicity", I found it to be easy to learn a 
language that makes it hard to get stuff done. I've never 
understood the argument that programming in Go is simple. Clearly 
others have their own view.