Gary Willoughby: "Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers"

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 15:54:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 12:48:04 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>> My personal opinion about the article - people may hate D 
>> equally for being "too pragmatic". That
>
> Yeah, well, both the D/Go communities use the term "pragmatic" 
> to gloss over underwhelming design issues in D/Go, and makes a 
> point of how D/Go is deliberately not being a research 
> language, yet still claim that D/Go bring novel features... 
> although neither D or Go bring anything new to the table. 
> I.e.just about all the major concepts in D/Go are 30-50 years 
> old...

It need not be new, it needs to be good. That's all. I don't 
understand this obsession people have with new things, as if they 
were automatically good only because they are new. Why not try 
square wheels? Uh, it's new, you know.

> It is mostly a case of inexperienced programmers not knowing PL 
> history becoming fanbois of new languages. Kind of like the OS 
> wars of the 1990s.