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

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 22:02:42 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 21:52:30 UTC, Almighty Bob wrote:
>> On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 21:11:46 UTC, Alex Parrill wrote:
>>> On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 21:02:39 UTC, Almighty Bob wrote:
>>>> The language reference is pretty abysmal too. EG...
>>
>>>> It has that feel all the way through. You go looking for 
>>>> things and they never seem to be where you expect, or they 
>>>> are so tersely explained, it feels like it's a reference for 
>>>> people already experts in D. Which is fine if that's what 
>>>> it's meant to be ... but if you want to attract new people 
>>>> you need a "guided tour" rather than a "technical spec".
>>>
>>> The language reference is a reference; it's supposed to be a
>>> technical spec, not a starting point. That said, the only 
>>> links to starting points are the book (which isn't free) and 
>>> the "Programming in D" pages at
>>> http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html (which are now buried 
>>> in the Articles tab)
>>
>> Well I figured that was probably the case.
>>
>> It's just not very smart to have that as the only obvious 
>> guide to the language on the home page.
>
> There's a "Books and Articles" dropdown on the frontpage, Ali's 
> book is the first link.
>
> It's very good. I refer to it constantly.

Wow, I failed at reading. Didn't realize that section was already
mentioned.