antlr's c++ backend is pretty good for complex projects

This is great news. More companies should donate money to useful open-software projects

So Nim is more expressive and concise than Go. OK.

To be fair, in some cases[1] the code in Go has error handling and the code in Nim doesn't. In other cases the Go code does more things[2].

Nim is no doubt more expressive and concise than Go, but this comparison is seriously unfair in some situations. In addition, although Go is concise on the absolute scale I don't think it ever set out to be the most concise - it solves the problems that it set out to solve.

[1]: http://rosetta.alhur.es/compare/nimrod/go/#Read_entire_file [2]: http://rosetta.alhur.es/compare/nimrod/go/#Zero_to_the_zero_...

Not only that, on LOC is the goal; the Go code isn't written in most terse form, there are numerous unnecessary newlines and they do things like:

Examples:

    cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
    cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr

vs

    cmd.Stdout, cmd.Stderr = os.Stdout, os.Stderr

and:

    if open == 0 {
        fmt.Println("ok")
    } else {
        fmt.Println("not ok")
    }

vs.

    if open == 0 {
        fmt.Println("ok")
        return
    }
    fmt.Println("not ok")

Your first example is a great counter-point to the talk above about "if more stuff can fit on the screen it's easier to understand". I personally really prefer the 2-line construction.

As any language designed in the last decade.

Go is only eight years old.

Fair enough, but syntax-wise it looks like it was designed in the 80's or 90's. Some people see that as a good thing.

Many programmers don't like indentation blocks.

Can't tell why. I think it's awesome. Languages like Ruby suddenly seem like they got a bunch of strange ends dangling all over the place.

Jokes apart, I switched to Bing recently to try how it works and I am impressed. Realtime udates on showtimes and ticket prices, price compare. Pretty cool stuff. The search has improved too!

Yeah, some of the "criticism" is pretty outdated. Myself, I'm actually really impressed by Bing Webmaster Tools. They're quite a bit better than Google's. Unfortunately, not much traffic via Bing to analyse is coming in in our case