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

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On Tuesday, 17 March 2015 at 06:31:32 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 03/14/2015 08:49 PM, Xavier Bigand wrote:
>>
>> Take a look to the new Qt web site :
>> http://www.qt.io/
>>
>
> While I personally think the latest D homepage redesign looks 
> stylistically inconsistent and a bit cluttered and messy (I 
> don't mean that to insult, merely an opinion/critique), I'm 
> REALLY glad we haven't jumped on that hideous bandwagon above.

Yes, the 
scroll-scroll-scroll-scroll-where-did-they-hide-the-info-design 
is annoying and probably the result of using generic templates. 
Looks cheap.

> Even ignoring all subjective and objective specifics of the 
> style, the mere concept of designing a site "mobile-first (and 
> desktop if we ever feel like it, as it usually turns out)" is 
> entirely inappropriate for websites relating to software 
> development - a field which even today still takes place almost 
> entirely on desktop/laptop, not phone or tablet.

The site is the epitome of inappropriate:

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