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

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 18:51 +0000, weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 18:47:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > On 3/28/2015 3:20 AM, Jonathan M Davis via 
> > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> > > Personally, I'm not sure that much is gained in pitting Go 
> > > against D
> > > precisely because they're so different that they're likely to 
> > > appeal to
> > > completely different sets of people.
> > 
> > I also do not regard Go as a competitor to D. It's more of a 
> > competitor to Java and Ruby.
> 
> I find most people I know using Go are from the python camp and 
> either wanted static typing or faster runtime execution.

It is a pity that D is not pitching as a Python replacement.
 
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