A little Go => Python story

[OlliP]

I knew a little Go and then by chance had a look at Python. The 
similarities in syntax were striking. Because of the very quick 
build times, Go feels like a scripting language. However, it 
really falls short on OOP. Delegates in Go can mimic inheritance 
to some extend, but method overriding (aka virutal methods) 
remains impossible. I believe many Python/C++ developers won't 
pick Go due to its lack of OOP and more andvanced language 
features. Maybe as a scripting language or a languagee to write 
little tools or concurrent stuff.

I think just being a modernized C is not enough. Even in systems 
programming people look for more advanced language constructs as 
in C++ or D. If it's about performance alone, you would just 
stick to C. Currently Go can compete in performance just with 
Java. To define a business case in spite of the simplicity of the 
language IMHO speed would have been to be quite better as in Java.

Besides that thread multiplexing as in Go would also make a lot 
of sense in D. It already exists for Java (see 
http://hawtdispatch.fusesource.org/, 
https://github.com/lmax-exchange/disruptor). Maybe porting 
HawtDispatch to D can be done without having the approach in 
hatDispatch).

-- Oliver