Zig mentions D in justifying its existence

Tue Nov 14 08:13:58 UTC 2017

On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 06:11:34 UTC, Fra Mecca wrote:
> On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 01:01:16 UTC, codephantom wrote:
>> "C++, Rust, and D have a large number of features and it can 
>> be distracting from the actual meaning of the application you 
>> are working on. One finds themselves debugging their knowledge 
>> of the programming language instead of debugging the 
>> application itself."
>
> That is c++. I don't have this problem with D, but Go for sure 
> represent that feeling taken to the extreme

Why Go? The Go semantics are fairly straight forward except their 
take on "exception handling".