D vs Go on reddit

[Nick Sabalausky]

"spir" <denis.spir at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 02/02/2011 10:37 PM, bearophile wrote:
>> If a person looks at the history of computer languages, she sees 
>> thousands of languages. Many of them were lot of work to be created, and 
>> most of them have failed, over and over again. This has happened even to 
>> languages better than many other languages present at their time, and 
>> when you see this you get sad.
>
> Like in any other domain in our civilisation, the (hum) "success" (in 
> social sense: fame, power, money) of a programming language has exactly 
> nothing to do > with its quality.
> Actually, I rather think the opposite: that deep reasons allowing the 
> creation of a Good Thing play against its social success (could hardly 
> explain this clearly); and conversely. I would for instance blindly bet 
> 1000? (or $, or £) that in, say, 18 months, Go will have reached a higher 
> level of success D will ever reach. Nothing to do with quality.
> I also bet Go not only will never be a good language, compared to other 
> modern ones in the same field, but will quickly become a big mess, and 
> worse and worse; while loads of people will sing for its fame (and more 
> and more of them, more and more loudly).
>

Wouldn't surprise me in the least. That's exactly what happened with Java.