On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 07:35:17 UTC, JN wrote:
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran
wrote:
This is a very interesting post. But this strategy with HN is
clearly not working. 5 upvotes after 17 hours and 0 comments.
Please paste the direct link in future even if the ranking
goes down after a few hours. Some publicity is better than
nothing at all.
To be honest... I use D and don't really understand what the
blog post is about (I don't really care much for const and
such). I just glance through it and nothing catches my eye. I
imagine any non-D user would completely ignore this blog post.
It's a nice blog post for D users who are into this topic, but
it's not something that would grab general attention. Also the
premise of "D's const is hard to use, here's a way to deal with
it" is not very optimistic. People here might think "wow,
that's a nifty trick", but most outsiders would just think "wow
that const thing is pain in the ass".
Here's some examples of blog posts that got popular on reddit
last week. They're short enough and can be understood without
deep understanding of the language:
https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/06/19/a-little-bit-of-plain-javascript-can-do-a-lot/
https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-colorblind-async-await/
For a while I thought it was just me but the D blog posts
addressing D specific nifty tricks mostly don't interest me.
Benchmarks, const, etc... :(. Probably it's just because of my
area of interest or how they're articulated.
But stuff about a companies using D for this and that or a
community member sharing their thing comes out very interesting.
I myself will be interested in doing some less technical but more
practical posts. Probably comparing and contrasting packages,
tools, community and stuff.
I'm curious what's happening in those D meetups. Are they still
happening (online)?
