Go vs. D [was Re: Rust vs Dlang]
deadalnix
deadalnix at gmail.com
Sun Mar 17 04:17:07 PDT 2013
On Sunday, 17 March 2013 at 08:57:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I'd like to add that D has:
>
> - operator overloading
> - user defined attributes
> - dll's (coming soon)
So it doesn't.
> - vector operations
> - SIMD operations
> - scope guard
> - compile time function execution
> - true immutability and purity
It isn't guaranteed by the current type system.
> - inline assembler
>
>
>> Their talk about fast compilation is also quite effective with
>> young developers
>> that did not grew up with Modula-2 and Mac/Turbo Pascal or
>> using other compiled
>> languages with modules, so they think Go is the first compiled
>> language to offer
>> that.
>
> Andrei did some tests a while back showing that D compiles
> considerably faster than Go. High compilation speed has been a
> major factor among companies who have adopted D.
If you use some of the mentioned above features, resources
required to compile can explode dramatically.
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