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

[Ola Fosheim Grostad]

On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 at 00:01:21 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Sunday, 6 December 2020 at 19:37:31 UTC, random wrote:
>> On Saturday, 5 December 2020 at 21:38:40 UTC, Daniel N wrote:
>>>
>>> But what I don't get is, why would anyone choose Go over C# 
>>> for instance, it also has an excellent ecosystem but the 
>>> language is actually decent unlike Go.
>>
>> Learn to implement basic data structures like in C? (no 
>> generics 2020 wtf!)
>>
>> To use a weird way of duck typing in a typed language? 
>> (interfaces and upcoming generics)
>>
>> I don't get it too. The language is hilariously bad imho^^.
>
> We tend to focus on the language itself too much. Project 
> managers care about delivering results ASAP. So they'll go for 
> something with a matured ecosystem of tools and packages...to 
> get things done.

Actually, I think there should be much more focus on fixing the 
language and runtime. Go builds on experience with plan9, they 
did not start from scratch. They had iterations that predate Go.