D vs Go in real life

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, November 05, 2013 16:27:39 Jesse Phillips wrote:
> So, is he writing D code now :D. Or did he complain about the
> syntax, all the types being on the left?

LOL. I doubt that someone who's that big a fan of Go would switch thanks to 
that (would you have switched to Go if the Go implementation had won?) - 
especially when Go and D are so dissimilar. In general, I would expect fans of 
Go to dislike D and fans of D to dislike Go simply because of how very 
different their designs are. But it _would_ show him that D can compete with Go 
for performance even in Go's area of expertise.

Go is on the list of languages that I'd like to spend more time becoming 
familiar with, because I think that it's good to know lots of programming 
languages, but the more I learn about it, the less I like it. Its design 
philosophies are just too different from my preferences.

- Jonathan M Davis