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

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On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 22:14:45 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/13/2015 12:01 PM, weaselcat wrote:
>> On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 18:55:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 3/13/2015 3:34 AM, bearophile wrote:
>>>> "Strict mode" is a D2 with immutable+ at safe+pure by default,
>>>
>>> Note that you can get this largely by starting a module with 
>>> the following:
>>>
>>>   immutable @safe pure:
>>>
>>
>> As far as I'm aware, there's no way to mark functions impure 
>> this way other than
>> lexical location. Am I incorrect?
>
> You are correct, which is why D also supports:
>
>    immutable @safe pure {
>       ... nice declarations ...
>    }
>
>    ... naughty declarations ...

But most prefer labels. Did you dislike things like 'pure(false)' 
or' default:'? Just out of interest, since it is a bit offtopic.