What is the D plan's to become a used language?

Bienlein via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Dec 22 23:57:21 PST 2014


On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 21:46:48 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:

>i can assure you that "concurency in the language" is not the 
>only
>thing one needs to know before "start writing a server". you keep
>telling that everything else in Go is so cheap to learn, so only 
>CSP
>matters. oh, really? Go can magically do all header parsing, 
>database
>management and other things for me? or we talking about "echo" 
>servers?

Go does have good libraries for networking and support for REST, 
WS, messaging systems, bindings to other messaging systems, and 
all that stuff. I remember that even Walter or Andrei 
acknowledged that themselves somewhere in a post in this forum. 
To me Go is too simplistic. Everytime I try to like it I can't 
resist to say "No, I can't continue with this. It's just too 
minimalistic.". But they have a true selling point which is 
developing server side software and they have the batteries 
included for that.

What I'm saying is that being good at everything is good, but 
only a true selling point would receive people's attention. 
That's the way it is. Making D fit for server side development is 
a suggestion of mine. It seems to me something that has traction 
and will continue to have so unless the Internet dies a sudden 
death. There might be other even better ideas what could be 
selling points, but continuing with being good at everything and 
hoping that one day a big spender will come along might in the 
end not work out and result in a great loss of time. I don't want 
to appear harsh. It only seems to me that I wasn't able to bring 
my point across.

Cheers, Bienlein



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