Rust and D

[Peter Alexander]

On Saturday, 29 September 2012 at 19:09:46 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 9/29/2012 1:08 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> As you can see, no matter what you think of these features, 
>> the arguments are
>> pointless because it is very clear that you can do meaningful 
>> work without them.
>> We get by without channels, homoiconicity, and full program 
>> type inference; just
>> as the Go programmers get by without generics.
>
> I think that argument is making the claims that:
>
> 1. all features are equally valuable
>
> 2. if one can get by without a feature, then that feature is 
> not needed
>
> Both of those are invalid.

I'm not making claim 1, and claim 2 is true by definition.