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

Kagamin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 11 01:09:14 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 18:13:53 UTC, Dave wrote:
> D did get thread local storage correct, but I think people are
> starting to get on board with having restrictions by default
> because it prevents bugs (and the annotations are grepable). 
> Kind
> of like what Rust is doing. If this is the case, D might find
> itself being discarded in favor of languages that offer better
> guarantees.

Chances are they prevent one bugs at the cost of causing other 
bugs and raising cost of software development, which in the end 
may be not a better guarantee. And you can't prevent bugs by 
learning languages instead of, well, bugs.


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