D vs Go in real life

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Fri Nov 22 15:08:38 PST 2013


On 11/22/13 1:49 PM, Max Samukha wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 November 2013 at 19:42:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> Go's team was unable to add generics to the language.
>
> Not adding generics was Go's deliberate decision.

http://golang.org/doc/faq#generics

"We haven't yet found a design that gives value proportionate to the 
complexity, although we continue to think about it."

> For that matter, D got
> its type system all wrong compared to Haskell. So why won't we all move
> there?

Move where?


Andrei



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