On Friday, 30 March 2018 at 03:54:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Friday, 30 March 2018 at 02:46:13 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
On Friday, 30 March 2018 at 00:37:27 UTC, Meta wrote:
Unfortunately, this turned out to be the worst possible day
for me to try to actively monitor the thread and respond to
questions. I'm surprised that people latched onto my little
quip about C++ using the name variant for a tagged union.
It seems that any comment in a D article that refers to C++
will be construed in the worst possible way on reddit...
That's fine by me. Right now, this post is the fourth
most-viewed this year and it's not far off from number three.
While I would love to please the reddit crowd to the extent
that we see no negativity, I'm quite happy with the fact that
our comment threads there are nowhere near as negative as they
used to be. Posts that do generate this level of discussion
have higher views.
I can't dismiss reddit comments completely, but I don't put as
much weight on them as I used to. A subreddit is somewhat
comparable to a forum for a popular video game -- lots of vocal
people who are actually a small minority of the player base. We
can't measure the number of people who click the reddit link to
the blog and come away from it with a positive impression. They
aren't going to bother commenting on reddit.
You're right and the unreasonable position of the
SolidStateGraphics user is clear for everyone to see. There are
some points he makes that could be discussed but by holding
essentially the position "D is shit because it is not C++" his
whole argumentation falls apart as Stockholm-syndrome induced
rationalisation.
