Google's Go

[John D]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
news:hjh61f$2c62$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Recently I've seen this, is it possible to write an equally short & 
> safe & easy program in D2 (using the concurrency features being 
> developed)?
> http://grammerjack.blogspot.com/2010/01/writing-bittorrent-client-in-go.html
>
> (In computer language history it's happened often that a worse language 
> (let's say Go) becomes more widespread than a "better" one ).
>

I'm not sure that is true. Actually, I think it is not true. People say 
that about Windows all the time too. While I KNOW much better OSes are 
possible, there really is (or was all this time, I haven't used the new 
Macs but I wouldn't want to do Unix-style programming anyway, so it's 
underpinnings do not appeal to me, FWIW) no comparable competitor. On the 
flipside, I think C++ is a crappy language, but it's still the best one 
out there (IMO, until I implement my own, of course) and I use it but I 
liked using it better before I knew so much about it.