Google's Go

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

John D wrote:
> "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
> news:hjh61f$2c62$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Recently I've seen this, is it possible to write an equally short &
>>  safe & easy program in D2 (using the concurrency features being 
>> developed)? 
>> http://grammerjack.blogspot.com/2010/01/writing-bittorrent-client-in-go.html
>> 
>> 
>> (In computer language history it's happened often that a worse
>> language (let's say Go) becomes more widespread than a "better" one
>> ).
>> 
> 
> I'm not sure that is true. Actually, I think it is not true. People
> say that about Windows all the time too. While I KNOW much better
> OSes are possible, there really is (or was all this time, I haven't
> used the new Macs but I wouldn't want to do Unix-style programming
> anyway, so it's underpinnings do not appeal to me, FWIW) no
> comparable competitor.
> 
> On the flipside, I think C++ is a crappy language, but it's still the
> best one out there (IMO, until I implement my own, of course) and I
> use it but I liked using it better before I knew so much about it.

As Napoleon said - every soldier carries a marshal's baton :o).

Andrei