Rust updates

[Patrick Stewar]

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> On 7/10/12 2:30 AM, Stefan Scholl wrote:
> > Caligo<iteronvexor at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Stefan Scholl<stesch at no-spoon.de>  wrote:
> >>> "bearophile"<bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  wrote:
> >>>> I think Go is meant to be used mostly on 64 bit servers.
> >>>
> >>> There aren't many people using Go on 32 bit systems. That's why there is
> >>> (was?) a big memory leak on these systems which wasn't caught early on.
> >>
> >> There aren't many people using Go, period.
> >
> > Don't know about this, but "Programming in Go" is a bad book (talks about
> > OO in Go and the author was clearly paid by number of words) but has a
> > higher ranking on Amazon than "The D Programming Language".
> 
> The book was released only in March; newer books usually have their 
> highest rank during their first months. Also, TDPL has a paperback and a 
> Kindle edition, which "compete" in rank with each other.
> 
> As an aside, Gedankenexperiment: imagine D were created at Google and Go 
> were created by Walter. How would they have fared? I honestly think 
> things would have been quite, um, different. I believe quite strongly is 
> Go wouldn't have received any attention, and D would have been a riot.
> 
> > And all the news sites and programmer blogs are nearly silent regarding D.
> 
> I agree that that's a problem, and it starts with us.
> 
> 

It was under my impression that is because whole D thing was badly engineered from the start. Programming work was great, but whole other parts of this en devour are badly played. Just too much messed up priorities.