D is the sweet spot for Python programmers to upgrade to without going backwards to Go (Programming language design wise) nor weighed down by all the new (and very good) stuff in Rust.
D has everything from a nice IDE(Xamarin Studio), debugger, package management (Dub), statically compiled binaries, pretty decent std lib (not as good as python or Go, but very good nonetheless).
I still write Python if it's a "script" that has to run on a $work server, where it is safe to assume that Python would be available and sufficient for most tasks.
People saying "backwards to Go" instantly reminds me of the following quote:
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Hmmm... It is interesting how many years urban myths can persist.... 45 years and counting....
"In December 1968 the report on the Algorithmic language ALGOL 68 was published. On 20–24 July 1970 a working conference was arranged by the IFIP to discuss the problems of implementation of the language,[1] a small team from the Royal Radar Establishment attended to present their compiler, written by I.F. Currie, Susan G. Bond[2] and J.D. Morrison. In the face of estimates of up to 100 man-years to implement the language, using up to 7 pass compilers they described how they had already implemented a one-pass compiler which was in production use in engineering and scientific applications."
D is the sweet spot for Python programmers to upgrade to without going backwards to Go (Programming language design wise) nor weighed down by all the new (and very good) stuff in Rust.
D has everything from a nice IDE(Xamarin Studio), debugger, package management (Dub), statically compiled binaries, pretty decent std lib (not as good as python or Go, but very good nonetheless).
I still write Python if it's a "script" that has to run on a $work server, where it is safe to assume that Python would be available and sufficient for most tasks.