Google Fight - D vs Go

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Sat Nov 24 13:20:00 PST 2012


Am 24.11.2012 16:42, schrieb Jeff Nowakowski:
> On 11/20/2012 05:52 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> This probably doesn't mean all that much, but I find it interesting
>> that Go is
>> only slightly ahead of D when comparing d programming and go
>> programming, and
>> D is only slightly ahead of Go when comparing "d programming and "go
>> programming":
>>
>> http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=d+programming&word2=go+programming
>>
>> http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22d+programming%22&word2=%22go+programming%22
>>
>>
>> The hit count when using parens is pretty low though. Regardless, I
>> find it
>> somewhat interesting that D and Go are getting such similar search
>> results in
>> terms of numbers. Given that it's from google, I would have expected
>> Go to do
>> better than it's doing in comparison to us (though it's quite possible
>> that
>> the search for Go is returning more useful hits).
>
> You're right, it doesn't mean much. What you are doing is essentially
> what TIOBE does. Given the generality of "D" and "go", you're measuring
> ambiguous results, as you allude to in your last remark. You might
> remember the last time TIOBE came up, with the big announcement that D
> had cracked the top 20 in a big swing. I don't recall seeing an
> announcement when D plummeted back down to the 30s.
>
> If you want to say how well a language is doing, show me the jobs. Both
> languages are niche in that department.


Well, even with my occasional rants about features Go lacks, I do admit 
it is easier to eventually use Go in projects than D.

Being a Google's language and already having a few startups betting on 
it, does help convincing the customers.

--
Paulo


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