My choice to pick Go over D ( and Rust ), mostly non-technical

[Ralph Doncaster]

On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 15:06:35 UTC, Benny wrote:
> I am sure there will be lots of opinions regarding this post 
> but its suffice to say that my decision to go with Go ( no pun 
> intended ) is finally. I hope this final post is some 
> indication of the issues that have plagued my decision process.

Thanks for the detailed post.  I'm an old C/C++ guy (got started 
with C++ back in the cfront days), and have been kicking the 
tires on D recently.  The poor state of libraries is something 
that may push me away from D as well.  In my case, need opencl 
and crypto libs.  The opencl package in dub is a crude wrapper 
around the original C API.  I couldn't find any sha lib, so I've 
started porting a reference sha3 implementation from C.

I, like you, may end up jumping off the ship though.  I've done a 
bit of work with golang before, so maybe I'll take another look 
at it.  The opencl bindings aren't much better, but there are 
ready-made sha3 libs I can use instead of porting from C.