Pitching D to a gang of Gophers

[landaire via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 5 March 2016 at 11:05:09 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> - tooling, tooling, tooling (IDE plugins and build tools work 
> great)

I'd like to add that one of the things that I love about Go is 
that it is crazy easy to cross-compile. `GOOS=freebsd go build` 
and I have a FreeBSD binary sitting in my working directory, 
ready to send off.

Things I really like about D though are the UFC makes for really 
pleasant method chaining and cleaner code (along with 
map/filter/reduce for things), code reuse as you pointed out, and 
Dub being an actual package manager that seems to have common 
issues with dependency management solved. At least with my 
limited experience with D I haven't run into any Dub-related 
issues.

I'd like to toss in that D's lack of solid and stable `io` APIs 
in phobos is kind of sad and resulted in one of my recent 
projects being rewritten in Go.