Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:08:02 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 03:04:50 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
> wrote:
>> The biggest difference between the D community in general and 
>> other communities is actually quite simple.
>>
>> Experience.
>
> Indeed! The world has never seen a more experienced collection 
> of freshmen language designers. Theory does not apply.
>
> Rust and Go are doomed.

Now, now. It is true that bad and frustrating experience with 
other languages drove me (and probably others) to D. D is open to 
suggestions, while other languages still live by the "one size 
fits all" mentality. std.allocator is a good example of trying to 
offer a variety of different memory models. What's wrong with 
that?

People here often request features you can only ask for after 
years of programming experience. This shows that there is a lot 
of experience in the D community. Without experience D wouldn't 
be where it is, having only limited resources.

>> That's right. As mentioned we accept bugs, we accept issues.
>
> Submit and accept, no regrets.
>
>> Discuss them at length and fix them when a good solution is 
>> found.
>
> A ground breaking GC will emerge from the synthesis of the 
> unsurpassable number of endless GC debates. That is the 
> sanctimony of meritocracy.
>
> A non-breaking solution will eventually be found. Time is no 
> issue in such an important matter. We just wait and a solution 
> will emerge, through discussions based on pure experience.
>
>> Not only that but we look for problems to fix.
>> This is the mentality of a good software engineer. One who 
>> doesn't care about their own pride or ego but genuinely wants 
>> to make good code.
>
> This community is the UNICEF of programming. We are all meek 
> and humble individuals, divine servants of humanity.

Just trying to create the best tool possible for our own daily 
tasks.

> People in these forums all express gratitude when they are on 
> the loosing end of a technical debate. Nobody go silent or 
> resort to rhetorical excesses. Ever. We are all grateful for 
> being proven wrong, because that is how we become better 
> programmers.

But we keep coming back. So it cannot be that bad ;)

>> In a lot of ways this makes us the best developers on the 
>> planet. It would explain a lot, including how other language 
>> communities snob us yet we look at them for ideas.
>
> Indeed, we never snob anyone, and they all snob us. Especially 
> the ignorant C++ community that never mentions us.

Because this hurts some people. The D crowd doesn't snob other 
languages, in fact, people here often point at features of other 
languages saying "Da', can I have this, pleeeeeze?". All most of 
us do is to point out the strengths of D when ever the occasion 
arises, trying to convince people to at least give it a try. Of 
course it can be annoying when D is snobbed at while its features 
are being ripped.

Talking about UNICEF, feel free to be a humble servant of 
humani-D. The more the merrier!