A few notes on choosing between Go and D for a quick project

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 15:17:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

> There is something loosely related to curb appeal that has been 
> discussed here before. Consider someone just starts with D and 
> wants to figure whether there's a startsWith function in D.
>
> So they google for something like ``dlang startswith''. Nicely 
> enough http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html comes up 
> first. (Ideally the individual page 
> http://dlang.org/library/std/algorithm/starts_with.html would 
> come up.)
>
> Anyhow, assuming the user clicks on the former, startsWith is 
> easy to find at the top and then when you click on it...
>
> ====
> uint startsWith(alias pred = "a == b", Range, Needles...)(Range 
> doesThisStart, Needles withOneOfThese) if (isInputRange!Range 
> && Needles.length > 1 && 
> is(typeof(.startsWith!pred(doesThisStart, withOneOfThese[0])) : 
> bool) && is(typeof(.startsWith!pred(doesThisStart, 
> withOneOfThese[1..$])) : uint));
> bool startsWith(alias pred = "a == b", R1, R2)(R1 
> doesThisStart, R2 withThis) if (isInputRange!R1 && 
> isInputRange!R2 && 
> is(typeof(binaryFun!pred(doesThisStart.front, withThis.front)) 
> : bool));
> bool startsWith(alias pred = "a == b", R, E)(R doesThisStart, E 
> withThis) if (isInputRange!R && 
> is(typeof(binaryFun!pred(doesThisStart.front, withThis)) : 
> bool));
> ====
>
> This in big bold font, too. The HTML way of saying, "you wanted 
> startsWith? I'll give you more startsWith than you can carry." 
> Picture the effect this has on someone who just wanted to see 
> if a string starts with another.

I agree https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13676

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Jacob Carlborg