Opportunities for D

[Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 20:58:11 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 19:47:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 7/9/2014 3:20 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd state it differently: "Marketing fuss about goroutines is 
>>> the killer feature
>>> of Go" :) It does not have any fundamental advantage over 
>>> existing actor model
>>> and I doubt it will matter _that_ much.
>>
>> Much of the froth about Go is dismissed by serious developers, 
>> but they nailed the goroutine thing. It's Go's killer feature.
>
> I think it still mostly comes down to marketing :-)  That said,
> we're pretty close in D once my Scheduler pull request is
> accepted.  Between that and the Generator type in the same pull
> request, we're not missing much but the weird switch syntax they
> have.  There's still some work to do, but I think a lot of it
> really comes down to showing people what's already possible in D
> rather than writing more code.

Might also be a win to make it _visible_ in the language as a 
first-class construct by also adding async/await syntax sugar.

Joseph