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

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 19:44:01 UTC, cym13 wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 19:09:52 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> As an active Python developer, what would you add to or change 
>> about the following:
>> http://bitbashing.io/2015/01/26/d-is-like-native-python.html
>
> I like this article very much. IMO python's generators and list 
> comprehensions are the two things that are the most difficult 
> to replace when switching to another language. Hence I would 
> explicitely make a link with list comprehensions in the UFCS 
> paragraph because it is not obvious. I would also add a little 
> paragraph about ranges to make the link from generators (but 
> maybe not with an example as it may be scarier than it really 
> is).
>
> In the same way of making the parallel with python, many 
> developers seem to use python for web serveurs nowadays. It 
> would be great to include a link to vibe.d in the article. 
> Something simple like "or web server developments with vibe.d" 
> thrown in a sentence.
>
> Also, but this one would be a sensible addition, I'm sorry to 
> see that nothing is said about purity or safety. I definitely 
> think that it can be a good selling argument, even if it goes 
> beyond the goal "Writting Python in D".
>
> Otherwise, I find the article very good. It emphasis the good 
> points, even those that are often forgotten like dub (because 
> pypi is so important in python).
>
> I'll try giving it to some friends to see what they think about 
> it :)


should we add a link to the wiki and ask author if we could 
mirror there ?

This section on wiki looks like it could with a bit of fleshing 
out!

http://wiki.dlang.org/Coming_From/Python