D vs Go in real life

[Daniel Murphy]

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message 
news:mailman.208.1386005781.3242.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 05:34:12PM +0100, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Monday, 2 December 2013 at 16:19:11 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> >+1. Can we have multiple alias this? Pretty please? :)
>>
>> It think it is all about "pretty pulls please" ;)
>
> I know, I know... I just need to find the time to sit down and dig into
> the dmd code. Unfortunately, unlike Phobos where the code is easy to
> understand (thanks to being written in D), the dmd code is harder. Well,
> that, and I just haven't had the time to look over it more carefully.
>
> OTOH, there's also the temptation to wait until we've bootstrapped dmd
> into D, so that I can work with D source code instead of C++. :)
>

The D version is automatically generated from the C++ version, so time spent 
learning the C++ code would not be wasted.