On 7/10/12 10:59 AM, Patrick Stewar wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
On 7/10/12 2:30 AM, Stefan Scholl wrote:
Caligo<iteronve...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Stefan
Scholl<ste...@no-spoon.de> wrote:
"bearophile"<bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote:
I think Go is meant to be used mostly on 64 bit servers.
There aren't many people using Go on 32 bit systems. That's
why there is (was?) a big memory leak on these systems which
wasn't caught early on.
There aren't many people using Go, period.
Don't know about this, but "Programming in Go" is a bad book
(talks about OO in Go and the author was clearly paid by number
of words) but has a higher ranking on Amazon than "The D
Programming Language".
The book was released only in March; newer books usually have
their highest rank during their first months. Also, TDPL has a
paperback and a Kindle edition, which "compete" in rank with each
other.
As an aside, Gedankenexperiment: imagine D were created at Google
and Go were created by Walter. How would they have fared? I
honestly think things would have been quite, um, different. I
believe quite strongly is Go wouldn't have received any attention,
and D would have been a riot.
And all the news sites and programmer blogs are nearly silent
regarding D.
I agree that that's a problem, and it starts with us.
It was under my impression that is because whole D thing was badly
engineered from the start. Programming work was great, but whole
other parts of this en devour are badly played. Just too much messed
up priorities.
What I meant to say was that we're not writing enough about D, but I'll
take a vote of non-confidence over that any day :o).
Andrei
