On Sat, 2017-05-13 at 09:32 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars- d wrote:
> On 5/13/17 7:47 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > All in all ignore Reddit and get on with satisfying current users
> > and
> > getting traction is the real world.
> 
> I have it on good authority that social media and community forums
> are
> important factor in deciding which language to experiment with at
> companies small and large. We need to improve interaction within our
> community forums and also improve our presence on the likes of
> reddit
> and hackernews. -- Andrei

I suspect both observations must be right then with the determinant being companies and/or areas of use. All this is anecdotal, there is no statistically significant data. But then Reddit is mostly opinion and advocacy research.

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On Saturday, 13 May 2017 at 11:05:26 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 May 2017 at 06:47:54 UTC, nkm1 wrote:
>
>> Atilla's library... but, as someone on Reddit said, at the moment that is rather "unergonomic".
>> I'm sure that will get better over time, though. At least I don't see why not. Most of what is needed is already there.
>
> The problem with trying to satisfy Reddit is that they want the GC removed from the language. They want it off by default, they want all language features to work without the GC, they want all of Phobos to be free of the GC, and they want all code anyone else writes in D to be written without the GC in case they want to call that code.
>
> I'm all for adding additional features to the language for those that prefer to avoid the GC. But that's not what the anti-GC coalition is asking for.

The worse is that most of this whiners don't even know how the GC in D works as made completely obvious by this thread [0].
This is the perfect illustration that most of the anti-GC brigade at reddit are out to lunch. I'm wondering if catering to these requirements is a good idea.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6as1di/serialization_in_d/dhhvly2/

On Saturday, 13 May 2017 at 13:55:17 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> anecdotal, there is no statistically significant data. But then Reddit is mostly opinion and advocacy research.

In my experience /r/programming has rather poor quality, but /r/cpp and other more specific groups tend to be much better.

The only reason to read /r/programming is to get a feeling for trends... I guess.

On Sunday, 14 May 2017 at 16:08:59 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 May 2017 at 13:55:17 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> anecdotal, there is no statistically significant data. But then Reddit is mostly opinion and advocacy research.
>
> In my experience /r/programming has rather poor quality, but /r/cpp and other more specific groups tend to be much better.
>
> The only reason to read /r/programming is to get a feeling for trends... I guess.

/r/programming is full of Rust fanboys that think that their language is the End of all problems. It's not only D related articles - Swift, Kotlin or any article about any other emerging language will almost have more ocurrentes of the word "Rust" in the comments that the language the article is about.

Really toxic community.