Is now on the front page of news.ycombinator.com!

On Wednesday, 2 July 2025 at 23:14:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Is now on the front page of news.ycombinator.com!

I'm glad Hackernews is taking it a bit better. I gave up responding to Reddit :D

One thing that's taken me by surprise is that some people are interpreting this as "These are the BEST features of D (prepare to be underwhelmed)" or "These 100%-unique features of D are incredible (bow down peasants)".

When my intention was simply "Here's a high-level look at some less talked about features (+ CTFE & UFCS) I think are cool, not necessarily THE best or THE most interesting, in an easy to digest format". I definitely need to find a way to better convey my messaging I guess :)

On Wednesday, 2 July 2025 at 23:14:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Is now on the front page of news.ycombinator.com!

Could you please share the URL for those who can't access this site?

Thanks,

Matheus.

On Thursday, 3 July 2025 at 13:28:22 UTC, matheus wrote:
> Could you please share the URL for those who can't access this site?

Very nice article: https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/features-of-d-that-i-love/

On Thursday, 3 July 2025 at 13:33:55 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 July 2025 at 13:28:22 UTC, matheus wrote:
>> Could you please share the URL for those who can't access this site?
>
> Very nice article: https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/features-of-d-that-i-love/

Thank you, and indeed very nice article.

One thing "Bradley" should do is add a date to his blog posts.

Matheus.

On Thursday, 3 July 2025 at 13:45:10 UTC, matheus wrote:
> One thing "Bradley" should do is add a date to his blog posts.

Definitely, I'm just really lazy. The underlying markdown files have dates attached to them, I just haven't added them into the HTML output yet (e.g. https://github.com/BradleyChatha/personal-website-5000/blob/master/collections/blog/d-propaganda/what-i-love-about-d.md?plain=1#L4).

On Thursday, 3 July 2025 at 12:13:58 UTC, Bradley Chatha wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 July 2025 at 23:14:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Is now on the front page of news.ycombinator.com!
>
> I'm glad Hackernews is taking it a bit better. I gave up responding to Reddit :D
>

reddit isn't as active for programming discussions as hackernews

On Thursday, 3 July 2025 at 14:06:48 UTC, Bradley Chatha wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 July 2025 at 13:45:10 UTC, matheus wrote:
>> One thing "Bradley" should do is add a date to his blog posts.
>
> Definitely, I'm just really lazy. The underlying markdown files have dates attached to them, I just haven't added them into the HTML output yet (e.g. https://github.com/BradleyChatha/personal-website-5000/blob/master/collections/blog/d-propaganda/what-i-love-about-d.md?plain=1#L4).

Great and again for what it matters, very nice article.

I think this is a kind of thing that will attract more users.

Matheus.

On Thursday, 3 July 2025 at 14:06:48 UTC, Bradley Chatha wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 July 2025 at 13:45:10 UTC, matheus wrote:
>> One thing "Bradley" should do is add a date to his blog posts.
>
> Definitely, I'm just really lazy. The underlying markdown files have dates attached to them, I just haven't added them into the HTML output yet (e.g. https://github.com/BradleyChatha/personal-website-5000/blob/master/collections/blog/d-propaganda/what-i-love-about-d.md?plain=1#L4).

Person: please add a date to your article

Programmer: Mmh, I could just type the date in. Naaah, no hard coded data, I'll write a program to do it

On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 06:35:55PM +0000, Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
> Person: please add a date to your article
> 
> Programmer: Mmh, I could just type the date in. Naaah, no hard coded data, I'll write a program to do it

lol, this totally describes me. :-D  I'd rather spend 5 hours inventing a programmatic solution to a date I could've typed in myself in less than 5 seconds.  My excuse is that said program will then work flawlessly and effortlessly forever, so that I never have to type in another date again (and risk the occasional typo, forgetting to type it, etc. -- computers are great for 100% reproducibility and automatic execution where humans are prone to errors and forgetfulness).

As Larry Wall once said, one of the 3 virtues of a programmer is laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure.

:-P


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