D vs Go in real life

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 6 November 2013 at 14:41:45 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
>> It does not work on my field, because my employer does 
>> consulting for Fortune 500 companies usually multi-site with 
>> off-shoring component, where the technology stack is given by 
>> the customers themselves.
>>
>> So unless Scala,D, Go, ... are requested, they won't be used.
>
> I'm out of the consulting business for quite a while now. Now 
> I'm
> an internal employee and have to put up with what the architects
> decide. And my company is not a large organization. The CTO
> things you need an architect and then your software development
> is fine. The architect is good at drawing system diagrams and
> theoretical things. He doesn't care about languages, would never
> talk to some developer, neither would the CTO. If you want a
> change to JDK8 within 2020 you have to explain to the architect
> what a closure is and why it is beneficial. I think it will be
> very hard ... The problem is in general that company internal
> development is not on a good technical level. You have to work
> for some startup or a good technical company such as Google,
> Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, etc. Those guys are out of the league of
> most "ordinary" developers. So it will be Java and something 
> else
> in your spare time. Not wanting to be fatalistic, but this is 
> how
> I see the situation.
>
> -- Bienlein


Yeah, I am pretty old at this game. I already lost count how many 
technologies I have used since 1986. :)