D vs Go in real life

[Chris]

On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 12:34:23 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 10:29:35 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> Yes, yes, yes. You are of course right that corporate backing 
>> gives a language a boost, even if it's a mediocre language. 
>> But as soon as corporate thinking comes into a language 
>> (profit, ideology, branding, hype and whatnot), it's doomed. D 
>> has to breathe, and I admire all the people who have made D 
>> happen, and who are making it happen. I've learned a lot just 
>> by listening (well, reading).
>
> You're talking about corporate _management_ rather than 
> corporate backing.  The former can obviously lead to problems 
> (though it doesn't have to) -- the latter is almost invariably 
> good, as it means there's someone who can serve as guarantor 
> that any necessary work will get done.

You cannot separate the two. Management will creep into 
development sooner or later. E.g. one day D might implement 
features that have to do with what Facebook needs more than 
features that programmers need in general. So a module 
std.webshite.upload.latest.picture gets all the attention while 
std.reallyhandy is being neglected.