Pitching D to a gang of Gophers

[Shammah Chancellor via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 13:23:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 03/07/2016 02:17 PM, landaire wrote:
>> 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.
>
> What would be some good cases for that? When I want to 
> cross-compile, I ssh into the target machine and build there. 
> -- Andrei

Well,  at least in a commercial environment, not having to have 
multiple pools of build machines is very helpful.  That is to 
say, I don't need 10 windows machines sitting around waiting to 
accept a job, since I can just cross compile with `GOOS=windows 
GOARCH=386 go build` on linux.

This is also why gofmt is so awesome -- if you're working with a 
team of 40 other engineers, you don't want to be messing with 
formatting holy-wars.

And another item for this thread that D really shines at:

const and immutable -- Golang lacks const and immutable.  When 
working with large-ish teams, it's pretty annoying not to be able 
to require a library take a const, or immutable parameter.

-S