I earn my pay with Java development. In my spare time I learn
some Scala hoping there might be some work for me with Scala in
the future. Then I need to become familiar with all kinds of
new frameworks, tools, libraries and systems that continue to
pop up every year in the JVM eco system.
In the end there is not much time left for playing with a
"systems language". As Go is very effortless it could be a good
compromise here. I have thrown it away and refetched it due to
lack of alternatives several times. I would like to play with
D, but it has as step a learning curve as Scala. If you don't
have a background in C or C++ the learning curve is even
steeper. So it depends a lot from where you are coming.
I have never used Scala, never written in C++, and haven't done
much C programming in about twenty years (and only occasional VBA
for Excel programming in between). I don't learn as quickly
today as when a child. But I was able to learn enough D to be
productive in my domain in a few months, and found it easier to
learn than Python. So I haven't personally found the learning
curve to be steep in the sense of learning enough to be
reasonably productive. The metaprogramming perhaps, but you can
do a lot without being a ninja there if your orientation is just
being able to solve the problems you have in a small to medium
project.
Laeeth
