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

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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.

And Google will be right in abandoning an unsuccessful project. 
Supporting such project wouldn't benefit anyone and reusing 
resources in other promising projects is to the benefit of 
everyone.