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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