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

Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 11 05:49:18 PDT 2015


> D is really unique in the sense that it's open enough for 
> people not to feel that they have to role their own. D also has 
> enough features to satisfy many different users, although - and 
> this is often forgotten - you don't _have_ to use them all. 
> People like Go and Rust, because it tells them exactly what to 
> do. D doesn't, they have to think for themselves, and a lot of 
> people hate that, which is sad, because having loads of things 
> to choose from makes you think more about your code and 
> software design in general and it makes you a better 
> programmer/coder/architect.

Thinking like that is fine when you work on your own, but when 
you're in a large team and working on a large code base the 
prospect of trying to grok a dozen different coding approaches 
using different feature sets of some uber language is entirely 
unappealing and best avoided.



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