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

Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 10 17:57:32 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 20:14:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Contrary to technical official definition, in REAL WORLD usage, 
> "he" is BOTH a masuline AND a gender-neutral pronoun. A few 
> occasional nutbags who deliberately ignore the "gender-neutral" 
> possibility in order to promote their "you are all sexists" 
> agenda is NO excuse for bowing to thier pressure.

Personally I don't perceive he as ever being gender neutral(us 
native speaker). If I am trying to be gender neutral then I will 
use "they" or "that person" or "one". If some one did try to use 
he in a gender neutral context then I think it would sound weird 
to me.


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