D vs Go in real life

Max Samukha maxsamukha at gmail.com
Sat Nov 30 13:14:52 PST 2013


On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 23:08:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> 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."

Ok, I stand corrected.

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

Tried to implement a GADT in D?

>
> Andrei



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