Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:09:56 +0000, language_fan thusly wrote: > Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:44:33 -0700, Walter Bright thusly wrote: > >> Lutger wrote: >>> Cool article, I posted a comment. Reddit seems to be going downhill >>> fast though, it's even worse than slashdot. >> >> I know, the negative comments don't even make any sense. >> >>> Are locally instantiated templates used in phobos? >> >> Yes. > > I read the comments and I think some of them are justified. You cannot > really expect the way you built dmd to be the only alternative. > Efficient closures can be implemented differently if you have a VM that > supports precise generational gc, region inference, and the language is > a bit more value oriented (= functional).
Another thing is that often when an article about D is released, the only positive comments come from the members of the existing (smallish) community. There is no real interest in D outside the community (IMHO). Reddit's programming section is full of language fanatics, thus it is a bit hard to impress folks with tiny tricks as they daily work with various programming languages and concepts.
