Rust and D

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/28/12 5:54 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On Friday, 28 September 2012 at 17:42:07 UTC, Froglegs wrote:
>> The Rust website says this:
>>
>> Generic types yes, only simple, non-turing-complete substitution
>>
>> After seeing that I just assumed the language was worthless and
>> ignored it.. is there something more to this?
>
> Relevant:
> http://commandcenter.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/esmereldas-imagination.html

I remember the entry, it's caused some criticism on reddit or HN a while 
ago. Particularly the closing paragraph has grated many people, but 
heck, who hasn't had a bad blogging day?

We've experienced some similar criticism about D, which was quite 
clearly (in my opinion) a rationalization of a foregone disposition 
rather than a valid concern. One example that comes to mind is an email 
exchange with a C++ expert who latched onto D not supporting structs 
with internal pointers as an essential feature for many designs, which 
that person found unthinkable to adjust.

(I don't see how the parallel with the actress anecdote holds, as the 
punchline there is that an actor has to imagine being in other lines of 
work as the very part of acting.)

Anyhow, I've recently decided to acquire some fluency in Go and look 
into alternative ways to accomplish things I'd want to accomplish.


Andrei