Go vs. D [was Re: Rust vs Dlang]

[Paulo Pinto]

On Monday, 18 March 2013 at 19:39:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/18/2013 12:08 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Am 18.03.2013 13:21, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>> On 3/18/13 1:46 AM, Rory McGuire wrote:
>>>> The reason I use golang and not dlang for development at 
>>>> work is because
>>>> debugging is straightforward no weird segfaults after you 
>>>> program has
>>>> been running for a couple of days.
>>>>
>>>> Their debugging and benchmark tools are really good and the
>>>> documentation is fantastic.
>>>
>>> Could you please go into details on the debugging and 
>>> benchmarking
>>> tools? Thanks.
>>
>> From the time I used Go.
>>
>> You can use gdb or if you prefer something like a debugger 
>> IDE, LiteIDE
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/liteide/
>>
>> For benchmarking there is an old blog entry about the tools.
>>
>> http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html
>>
>> Nothing that you cannot find in other languages, unless there 
>> is now something
>> much better available.
>
> dmd has the -profile, to automatically generate a profile 
> report, and -cov, to tell you which lines were executed and how 
> many times.

That was my point.

I was initially attracted to Go given its similarity with Oberon 
concepts and was even enthusiastic to try to contribute something.

However the way some Go concepts are sold as being new, while 
other languages outside the C world have had them for years, and 
the resistance of Go community to anything new look elsewhere.

This answer from one of their developers is a good example,
http://9fans.net/archive/2008/08/134

--
Paulo