Thread overview
Thread on GO at hacker news
Mar 08, 2012
Robert McGinley
Mar 08, 2012
Andrej Mitrovic
Mar 08, 2012
Nick Sabalausky
March 08, 2012
Submission is titled "The Go Programming Language, or: Why all C-like languages except one suck."  But not argument is made for D.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680732
March 08, 2012
Seems like this was discussed before, as well as D: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2631964
March 08, 2012
"Robert McGinley" <mcginleyr1@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mtjrxlbyeunoueqdswme@forum.dlang.org...
> Submission is titled "The Go Programming Language, or: Why all C-like languages except one suck."  But not argument is made for D.
>
> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680732

"[Issue 9] is a C-like language...It is intended to be a systems programming language..."

Bleh. Google's Issue 9 is neither a C-like language nor a systems language.