On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 18:20:48 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
Finally, I feel I should respond to this:
On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 02:28:53 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
If you want to be Rob Pike Jr., Go is great. If you want to
program your way, not so much.
I have no reason to take this personally, seeing as I'm pretty
secure in my non-Rob-Pike-ness, but from a product design (and
selling) standpoint, blaming or insulting the user is, of
course,
missing the point. I felt equally put-off by the dismissive
tone
of some of the creators of Go towards those who "don't
understand" Go's ethos. I still ended up using their language,
but it wasn't for their persuasion skills. Thankfully, it seems
this isn't the general tone of D's community, and the level of
healthy, open debate over here appears to be much higher than
for
Go.
Sorry if it appeared I was being critical of you. I was only
giving the reasons that I didn't like Go. Maybe I should have
said Go forces you to program like Rob Pike. That works for a
lot of programmers, but not for me.
I feel compelled to say that I don't represent the D community.
Although I use D for work
(https://bitbucket.org/bachmeil/dmdinline) I've never
contributed anything to its development. I'm just a random guy
on the internet that compared Go against D but came to a
different conclusion.
Ok, no worries.
