Toward Go 2 (or D needs to collect experience reports)

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 6 September 2017 at 14:42:20 UTC, dimaria wrote:
> The highlights:
>
>> Our goal for Go 2 is to fix the most significant ways Go fails 
>> to scale.
>
>> Go 2 must bring along all those developers. We must ask them 
>> to unlearn old habits and learn new ones only when the reward 
>> is great.
>
>> Go 2 must also bring along all the existing Go 1 source code. 
>> We must not split the Go ecosystem. Mixed programs, in which 
>> packages written in Go 2 import packages written in Go 1 and 
>> vice versa, must work effortlessly during a transition period 
>> of multiple years. We'll have to figure out exactly how to do 
>> that; automated tooling like go fix will certainly play a part.
>
>> Today, what we need most is experience reports. Please tell us 
>> how Go is working for you, and more importantly not working 
>> for you. Write a blog post, include real examples, concrete 
>> detail, and real experience. And link it on our wiki page. 
>> That's how we'll start talking about what we, the Go 
>> community, might want to change about Go.
>
> I believe that if we ever want to see D3, we should start a 
> similar process and collect real world feedback about things 
> that are annoying on a daily basis.
> There have been many threads about "I want to have feature X" 
> in D and of course legendary threads like the one about 
> removing auto-decoding, but the aim of this discussion is to 
> identify things that bother you frequently or prevent you from 
> using D on a wider scale.
> Please see Russ's post for good examples. Blog posts or reports 
> on the wiki are very welcome.

I believe the core team is focused on D2 and isn't interested in 
entertaining thoughts about yet another breaking fork, especially 
after what happened the last time around.  As such, listing all 
such feedback will only be useful if you want to try and fix 
stuff in D2, it will most likely not lead to a D3 anytime soon.

Given D's current upward trajectory, they're probably right about 
maintaining that and pushing D3 for later:

http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png