Does D have too many features?

[Jonas Drewsen]

On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 21:12:39 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 20:59:48 UTC, q66 wrote:
>>
>> This kind of attitude "we need big fat bullshit like Java and 
>> heavy use of OO and idioms and EH and all that other crap" is 
>> broken and false. And you have no way to prove that Python for 
>> example wouldn't scale for large projects; its main fault is 
>> that the default implementation is rather slow, but it's not 
>> pretty much missing anything required for a large project.
>
> Python has two big drawbacks for large projects:
> - it's too slow
> - it's a dynamically-typed language
>
> The fact that it's flexible is because it uses duck typing, and 
> AFAIK you can't do duck typing in a statically typed language.
> So it's cool for small programs, but it can't handle large ones 
> because it's not statically typed. And this opinion doesn't 
> come just out of thin air, I speak from my own professional 
> experience.

Go is a static duck typed language (when using interfaces anyway) 
AFAIK.

http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#implements_interface
http://research.swtch.com/interfaces

/Jonas