D vs Go in real life

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 07:18:43 Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 November 2013 at 05:38:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
> 
> wrote:
> > 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?) -
> 
> Of course not, Go puts the types on the wrong side for me to
> switch. Had a coworker mention to me that I should look into the
> philosophy of Go amongst other points (not enough tech talk
> around). After a little bit of discussion (mostly not around Go)
> I let him know I was already aware of Go's philosophy and it
> didn't match my desires. Citing my attempt at Sorting Time[1] as
> an example. He agreed, lack of generics sucks.
> 
> 1. http://he-the-great.livejournal.com/49072.html

Yikes. Sorting time in D is trivial. It would never occur to me that that 
would be hard.

But I'm so sold on D's way of doing things with ranges and generic code that 
most any other language is likely to seem worse in comparison.

- Jonathan M Davis