On Saturday, 29 September 2012 at 10:27:26 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
If he were talking about some minor insignificant feature, then
I agree
it'd be goofy to reject a language solely because of that. But
that's
not what's happening. Generics are a major thing. Many people
*do* find
them to make a big difference.
So, with this in mind, do you think these hypothetical people are
all justified?
(a) [Go programmer]: D is rubbish because it doesn't have
channels.
(b) [Lisp programmer]: D is rubbish because it doesn't have
homoiconicity.
(c) [Haskell programmer]: D is rubbish because it doesn't have
full type inference.
All of those things are considered "a major thing" by their
users, and many people do find them to "make a big difference."
My question to you: Is it okay to reject D solely with these
arguments? If not, how is this any different from rejecting Go
solely from its lack of generics?
