On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 08:15:42 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 19:20 -0700, Walter Bright via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
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* The garbage collector eliminates probably 60% of potential
users right off.
And i bet over 80% of them are just saying this based on zero
evidence, just prejudice.
Go went with the attitude "Go has a GC, if you cannot deal with
that #### off". Many people did exactly that and the Go
community said "byeeee". Arrogant this may have been, but Pike,
Cox, et al. stuck to their guns and forged a community and a
niche for the language. This then created traction. Now GC in
Go is not an issue.
This.
I think the biggest problem about D is it's trying to satisfy
*everyone*. It's literally combining C++, Java, Python, and ~the
like. At some point it even tries to mimic Rust! Trying to be
everything at once is key po
