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

Thanks for writing this! Are you considering writing a part two for this? If so, templates, import-c, better-c, mixins, template mixins, nogc/safe/pure would be good follow up. :)

Different sides of D appeal to different people, that's for sure.

On 7/3/2025 7:09 AM, jmh530 wrote:
> reddit isn't as active for programming discussions as hackernews

I gave up following programming discussions on reddit several years ago. Most of it was uninteresting. HN is much better.

On 7/3/2025 3:22 PM, Mengu wrote:
> Thanks for writing this! Are you considering writing a part two for this? If so, templates, import-c, better-c, mixins, template mixins, nogc/safe/pure would be good follow up. :)

Two thumbs up from me!

On Thursday, 3 July 2025 at 22:22:38 UTC, Mengu wrote:
> Thanks for writing this! Are you considering writing a part two for this? If so, templates, import-c, better-c, mixins, template mixins, nogc/safe/pure would be good follow up. :)

I wanted to make a follow up focused on metaprogramming, but I guess I can technically make as many follow ups as I want as long as they get spaced out enough.

On Friday, 4 July 2025 at 06:22:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/3/2025 7:09 AM, jmh530 wrote:
>> reddit isn't as active for programming discussions as hackernews
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> I gave up following programming discussions on reddit several years ago. Most of it was uninteresting. HN is much better.

Same for me! Reddit was better a long time ago. Today it seems to be populated by people who don't really seem to love programming, but do love complaining about it, and the drama around certain programming-adjacent communities.

I wrote a D article once, got a somewhat good reception on HN, and the only comment on Reddit was someone saying I might as well use COBOL. Seriously, that was enough for me.