I suggest you to look at the official D website, but if you want a caricatural comparison, let's say that Go is a much better C, while D is a much better C++.
Like Go, D has also an incredibly fast compilation, a GC, and it provides very convenient maps, arrays, strings, slices, foreach, ranges, concurrency, etc, all at the language level. And it adds reference classes, genericity, polymorphism, compile-time meta programming, functional programming, and many other useful features that make programming with it an incredibly enjoyable experience. And you can go low-level too. It *also* has C-like pointers, structs, inline assembly, etc if you really want, for instance to use C or C++ functions and data structures. All that is available through a very simple C/C#-like syntax, which make it easy transitioning from C, C++, Java, C#, Go, etc. That said, Go has clearly a much more complete standard library when it comes to web development. If you want to interact with servers, databases and anything like that, Go remains the best alternative I know. Don't forget that D is a general purpose language developed by a few individuals on their free time, while Go is a web-focused language financially supported by Google. So if you are risk averse, my advice would still to use Go for server side development, and D for command line tools and desktop applications. On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 5:27:00 PM UTC+1, me wrote: > > > > On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 6:24:44 AM UTC-6, ecstati...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> Moreover, it's because of these little "details" that I looked for an >> alternative, and started using D, which is a kind of "Go done well" for me, >> even if I clearly see that as a community project without any financial >> funding, D will never be able to compete on the same grounds as Go. >> > > Please explain why D was done right, and the reasons D is better for > programming than Go. > > I was interested in D, but lost interest since virtually no one is using > it and there fore is risky (I know there are some using it, but, > virtually...I said ;-)) > > Also there is more than one D, TutorialD also. But I'm pretty sure you > mean Digital Mars D > > (This starts a new thread with a different subject now ;-)) > > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
