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

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/14/15 11:24 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> But yes, it certainly shows you can create shared-memory
> "multi-threading" this way,

So your affirmation has been refuted.

> but anyone actually doing it would be being
> very silly.

That's "design by prayer". Aren't most bugs created by people doing very 
silly things?

> Sending addresses down multiple channels

One is enough.

> is obvious here and
> definitely not the right thing to do unless the datum contains an
> embedded lock which is then used. cf.
> https://talks.golang.org/2012/10things.slide#3

Yes, of course it's not the right thing to do. Your point being...?

> It would be better if channels could only accept value types, and not
> reference types.

Probably not as that would further hamstrung the language.


Andrei