On 12 July 2014 11:27, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 16:54 +0000, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote: > […] >> I remember Java used to be "theeee" best thing ever. After years >> of using it, however, I found out how restricted the language was >> / is. Still, it's been a success, because people believed all the >> propaganda. What matters to me is not so much the odd fancy >> feature, it's how well the language performs in general purpose >> programming. Go was designed for servers and thus will always >> have one up on D or any other language at that matter. But could >> I use Go for what I have used D? Not so sure about that. Also, >> like Java Go is a closed thing. D isn't. Once I read about D that >> it shows what can be done "once you take a language out of the >> hands of a committee". Go, like Java, will finally end up in a >> cul de sac and will have a hard time trying to get out of it. Not >> because the language is inherently bad, because it's in the hand >> of a committee. Ideology kills a language. But it doesn't matter, >> because people will use Go or whatever anyway, will _have_ to use >> it. > > People believed the FORTRAN propaganda, the COBOL propaganda, the Pascal > propaganda. I think we ought to distinguish good marketing from hype. > Java had good marketing, was in the right place at the right time, and > had a huge amount of hype as well. > > If Go is better for server things than D then might as well stop trying > to use D at all. > > Go was actually designed as a better C with CSP for concurrency and > parallelism. >
Or a better Oberon, I haven't quite decided which yet... :) > If there were more D users in the London area than one in London and one > in Brighton maybe we could start a London D User Group (LonDUG). > SkillsMatter would host. > And I say Hello! from sunny Brighton. I do believe there are a few people around the London area who either have worked in, work in, or have a vested interest in D. I'll give Dejan a poke and find out some more numbers. Regards Iain.