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

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 12:21:30 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> 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.

Thinking as an economist and as a businessman that simply isn't 
true.  Whether a project fits with their own business goals is 
one thing; whether their business decisions might leave me 
stranded high and dry is another.  Now, a state of affairs where 
they are forced to support projects they wish to abandon would 
hardly be consistent with dynamic economic efficiency - it's not 
time consistent for one thing.  But in my experience one is 
foolish to create long-lived specific capital (a code base) whose 
value is complementary to services provided by another 
organisation without considering the incentives and habitual 
behaviour of this organisation.