On Thursday, June 08, 2017 01:08:42 Jon Degenhardt via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > I was surprised as well, pleasantly of course. Using a simple > example may have helped. Personally, I'm not bothered by the > specific instances of negative feedback on Reddit. It's hard to > write a post that manages to avoid that sort of thing entirely. > It was also nice to see related follow-up in the D forums ("how > to count lines fast" and "std.csv Performance Review"). It's less > if the case for how well suited D's facilities are for the type > of problem came across. It's much more clear in the Compile-Time > Sort post.
And even the reddit discussion on the compile-time sort post devolved a bit into arguments over stuff like enums as manifest constants. Using reddit to get information out there is useful, but from what I've seen, the comments usually devolve into a fairly negative discussion. I don't spend much time on reddit though. - Jonathan M Davis