RFC in Comparison between Rust, D and Go

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On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 at 19:25:32 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 at 17:32:15 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I agree that there are many interesting aspects to these type 
> systems. IIRC Pony-lang also guarantee deadlock-free execution.
>  Go 1.6 is going to get a dedicated SSA optimizer and also a 
> memory sanitizer like C/C++, which might bring Go closer to C.
>
> But C is really all about having full control over memory 
> layout and execution, it interfaces with just about any 
> conceivable language and compiles to an insane amount of 
> hardware. None of these other languages have that focus. Rust, 
> Go and D are more like high level languages primarily for PCs.
>
> Although Rust is perhaps closest to C by having a lightweight 
> runtime.

All C/C++ sanitizers are available to D, FYI. You can use them 
from LDC and probably GDC.
Yet another reason for abandoning dmd, you get massive benefits 
like this for free.