Go 1.9

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 19:07 +0000, Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
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> But Go still doesn't have proper generics, which keeps it 
> light-years behind D in terms of expressivity.

Go doesn't have, and likely will never have, generics in the C++, D,
Chapel sense, but then Rust doesn't either. Go has two routes for
achieving the goal that C++ generics (and hence D and Chapel generics)
were intended for. You have to use the idiomatic approach for the
language. Saying Go is behind D is missing the point that the languages
are different and have to be used differently to achieve the same goal.

> Still time to convince people to use D instead of Go then...

The only way of doing this is to have lots of problems programmed
idiomatically in D, Go, Rust, Kotlin, with unbiased compare and
contrast notes. You end up finding different languages are best in
different problems. Which is hardly a surprise. Generally it is the
libraries that are the truly key factors. 

And do not underestimate personal choice, different language gel with
different people (though there is some Stockholm Syndrome effect with
some people).

For me just now, D beats C++ for working with Gtk and GStreamer. For
other problems I go with Go, or partake of Python. C++17, or more
likely C++20, may make C++ interesting again. I though C++11 had, but
in the end it didn't.

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