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

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On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 08:39:14 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 14:00 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/30ad8b/why_gos_design_is_a_disservice_to_intelligent/
>> 
>> Andrei
>
> The reaction in the Go community to this article has been 
> exactly as
> one would have anticipated. I paraphrase the common theme thus:
>  Go is
> successful in the market, D isn't, therefore Go is a better 
> language
> than D.  Go does indeed have much greater market penetration, 
> but I
> leave it as an exercise for the reader to deduce the sophistry, 
> and
> indeed casuistry, in most of the argumentation.
>

By this standard, Go is much worse than C++, Java, or even C, 
which they pretend to be a better version of.