Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 18:13:53 UTC, Dave wrote:

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> Just a thought from a random spectator ;)

Interesting perspective. While I find the plethora of keywords in 
D a tad confusing (nowhere near as confusing as rust's 
borrowing!), I'm not sure it would necessarily mean that D would 
be discarded in favor of something else. There's a lot to like 
about D as a language.

More generally, it's a question of what paradigm you are trying 
to enforce. I think your paradigm is really about minimizing 
bugs, rather than necessarily wanting restriction. Nevertheless, 
I'm sure there are many who agree. My preference is a bit 
simpler: I want to write good code without a lot of clutter. So I 
think that the default option should be whatever enforces that. I 
don't see a reason why you should have a whole string of keywords 
before every function. Anything that simplifies that is a 
positive to me.

To your grepable point, another alternative is that you allow the 
annotations in either case so you could have a throw keyword and 
a nothrow keyword. If nothrow is default, you could still put it 
in there and then grep to change it to throw later. For that 
matter, it might be interesting to have some way to specify the 
default behavior for each .d file.