Rust and D

[Walter Bright]

On 9/29/2012 3:54 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> So, with this in mind, do you think these hypothetical people are all justified?
>
> (a) [Go programmer]: D is rubbish because it doesn't have channels.
> (b) [Lisp programmer]: D is rubbish because it doesn't have homoiconicity.
> (c) [Haskell programmer]: D is rubbish because it doesn't have full type inference.
>
> All of those things are considered "a major thing" by their users, and many
> people do find them to "make a big difference."

People can and do make those arguments and justifications.

The question is, really, how large of a class of programming problems does each 
of those features address?