D vs Go in real life

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-11-29 06:14, brad clawsie wrote:
> this has been a great thread and I've found a lot of the replies very
> insightful. I've been programming in Go at work for about a year or so
> now, so I have some opinions on Go that I believe are reasonably
> informed, while I am still a D novice but hope to continue learning.
>
> First, let me say that it is obvious that, by design, D is a more
> powerful language than Go. Go's simplicity will either be an advantage
> or a deal-breaker based on who you ask.
>
> On my vps instance last night I tried to create an initial D programming
> environment, with the following tools:
>
> - dmd
> - dub
> - vibe.d
> - ldc (not strictly necessary but I've heard so many good things about it)
>
> First I tried installing dmd from source, which was fine but then I
> would get strange errors about referring to a file "object.d" when
> trying to build dub. Some poking around on the web resulted in the
> advice of installing the pre-built dmd binary that is in the release
> distribution. Now I was able to build dub, although it was strange to
> see two completely different build mechanisms for dmd and dub - dmd
> using a makefile and dub using a sh script wrapper. vibe.d was easier to
> install once dub worked. Over an hour just to get basic tools installed,
> although I feel HTTP serving is so common that it should be one of the
> accepted "batteries included" by default.
>
> If this were Go, I would have installed the default build for my
> platform and had an http server in my standard sdk and everything else
> available by "go get", which has never failed to work flawlessly for me
> in a year of dealing with code from the web. This is one reason why
> there are already so many libraries for Go - it is trivial to expose
> your code to other developers via the supported toolchain.

Why did you install dmd from source and not the same way as Go? It's a 
bit unfair comparison. Dub is a package manager for D, with many 
libraries available.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg