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

[Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d-announce]

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.

How is Go a competitor to Ruby? I cannot think of a single 
parameter where Go and Ruby don't take the exact opposite 
approach!(other than the obvious ones like "both use require the 
programmer to write code")