Rust updates

[Iain Buclaw]

On 10 July 2012 13:35, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> On 7/10/12 2:30 AM, Stefan Scholl wrote:
>>
>> Caligo<iteronvexor at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Stefan Scholl<stesch at no-spoon.de>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "bearophile"<bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I think Go is meant to be used mostly on 64 bit servers.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There aren't many people using Go on 32 bit systems. That's why there is
>>>> (was?) a big memory leak on these systems which wasn't caught early on.
>>>
>>>
>>> There aren't many people using Go, period.
>>
>>
>> Don't know about this, but "Programming in Go" is a bad book (talks about
>> OO in Go and the author was clearly paid by number of words) but has a
>> higher ranking on Amazon than "The D Programming Language".
>
>
> The book was released only in March; newer books usually have their highest
> rank during their first months. Also, TDPL has a paperback and a Kindle
> edition, which "compete" in rank with each other.
>
> As an aside, Gedankenexperiment: imagine D were created at Google and Go
> were created by Walter. How would they have fared? I honestly think things
> would have been quite, um, different. I believe quite strongly is Go
> wouldn't have received any attention, and D would have been a riot.
>

D would be in GCC and Go would be trying to baby step over the hurdle
and find grip in the GCC community. :o)



>> And all the news sites and programmer blogs are nearly silent regarding D.
>
>
> I agree that that's a problem, and it starts with us.
>

Any future plans on D programming language books?   I must admit I'm
more of a Pocket Reference guy though.


Regards
-- 
Iain Buclaw

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