On Saturday, July 21, 2012 08:48:57 Paulo Pinto wrote: > After becoming disapointed with Go leaving in the past, I've come to the > conclusion that between the two, D is a much better choice.
I still need to study up on Go one of these days (along with a variety of other languages which are on my to-learn list), but the more I learn about it, the less I understand why Go and D are treated as competitors. I guess it's because of the systems language moniker (though Go doesn't mean it in the same was as C++ and D, so that skews things already), but Go and D are just so radically different in their basic approaches and philosophies, that I would expect that the folks who like one would dislike the other in most cases. They're just so completely different that I wouldn't expect them to really compete with one another save for the fact that developers only have so much time to check out new languages, so if one's getting a lot more attention, that could reduce how many people check out the other one, even if most people who check out the first one don't end up liking it. - Jonathan M Davis