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

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On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 08:37:54 UTC, Idan Arye 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.
>
> 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")

They appeal to programmer that prefers fashionable technology 
rather than technologies that solve problems.