Rust and D

[Walter Bright]

On 9/29/2012 1:08 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> As you can see, no matter what you think of these features, the arguments are
> pointless because it is very clear that you can do meaningful work without them.
> We get by without channels, homoiconicity, and full program type inference; just
> as the Go programmers get by without generics.

I think that argument is making the claims that:

1. all features are equally valuable

2. if one can get by without a feature, then that feature is not needed

Both of those are invalid.