Rust updates

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/10/12 10:59 AM, Patrick Stewar wrote:
> 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.

What I meant to say was that we're not writing enough about D, but I'll 
take a vote of non-confidence over that any day :o).

Andrei