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 05:15:20 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:37:21 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 10/06/2015 12:38, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
> <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
>> I think Rust has an advantage over Go in the name Mozilla 
>> alone, they
>> are more idealistic than Google.
>
> Agreed. In concrete terms, Mozilla is a non-profit, whereas 
> Google is not. Google can easily drop (or reduce) support for 
> Go if it doesn't serve whatever business goal they want. Or 
> alternatively they might not be interested in evolving Go (or 
> Go's toolchain) in directions that are useful for other people, 
> but have little value for their business or technical goals.

I'm afraid, Mozilla is the same: picks a group of people to 
prioritize and ignores others.


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