language_fan wrote: > 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).
Where does it say that the article describes the one true method? > 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. The majority of the negative comments on this post follow one of two lines of attacks: 1) D sucks or 2) Glaringly obvious straw man. From most of these, it's quite clear they haven't even read the article but responded anyway.
