On Sunday, 12 July 2015 at 17:54:02 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Sunday, 12 July 2015 at 12:32:32 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
Web servers: Why not?
Mostly because there is no real visible direction towards
making D a competitor that directly addresses specific needs of
web programming.
So what?
Personally, I've dealt with perl, ruby, python, java, and php in
the web space and as far as I'm concerned they're all
unmaintainable trash. (perl, ironically, gave me the best
experience of the five!)
If I ever decide I'm masochistic enough to attempt something in
that vein again, D is at least as strong a contender for me
because it offers fast iteration, solid performance, and a type
system that doesn't make me want to punch small animals.
Go and Rust, for all their "theoretical superiority" in one place
or another, _don't feel good_. Go is to C what Plan 9 is to
Unix, which is to say it's a thoroughly unimaginitive,
ideologically hampered, overly-conservative iteration from Rob
Pike. Rust might be intriguing if it ever catches up to D in
being pleasant to use.
-Wyatt
