I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride

[Ali Çehreli]

On 3/1/20 12:28 AM, Andre Pany wrote:

 > The company you work for, is Go a customer requirement or what blocks
 > the usage of D?

The company I used to work for used Go because the CTO had decided to 
use Go. To his credit, Go shined in "glue programming": Everything that 
a mircoservice security company would need was already written by 
someone else. (If not, you were sure that it would be written next week, 
which happened a couple of times.) You would simply import and use that 
feature and be happy. Of course you had to trust and accept all other 
dependencies that were sneaking to your project. (The linked original 
article mentiones this "issue".)

Interestingly, we did use D in one part of the product not because of me 
but because of another employee who had used D at Weka. Unfortunately, 
it had to be rewritten in C++ both because that person was leaving the 
company and both because there were issues with D's threadAttachThis() 
and threadDetatchThis(). (I have an abandoned PR which potentially fixes 
at least some of the issues.)

Ali