Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-14 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/13/2021 7:57 AM, James Lu wrote: I once resubmitted with an AMA-style comment, which was the difference between getting 12 points and not getting on the frontpage, and getting on the frontpage with 158 points. Yup. Another critical thing is to make the first post. The first post has a

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-14 Thread Bruce Carneal via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 14 February 2021 at 17:56:00 UTC, James Lu wrote: On Saturday, 13 February 2021 at 16:39:12 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: On Saturday, 13 February 2021 at 16:06:31 UTC, James Lu wrote: [...] "readable by a beginner" && "interesting and substantial information" might be hard to find.

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-14 Thread James Lu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 13 February 2021 at 16:39:12 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: On Saturday, 13 February 2021 at 16:06:31 UTC, James Lu wrote: [...] "readable by a beginner" && "interesting and substantial information" might be hard to find. Did you mean front- or backend? If you want to show compiler u

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-13 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 13 February 2021 at 16:06:31 UTC, James Lu wrote: On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 20:12:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Now #5 on the front page of https://news.ycombinator.com/news The page being discussed: https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ and on reddit:

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-13 Thread James Lu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 20:12:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Now #5 on the front page of https://news.ycombinator.com/news The page being discussed: https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ and on reddit:

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-13 Thread James Lu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 01:53:25 UTC, James Lu wrote: If you have any particularly interesting and specific pages on D, feel free to send them to me, so I can post them to HN at the optimal time. (Furthermore, if you authored it, you should a comment that explains why you made it and

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-13 Thread James Lu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 08:31:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/11/2021 5:53 PM, James Lu wrote: On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 20:12:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Now #5 on the front page of https://news.ycombinator.com/news I've gotten Dlang to the frontpage of HN 3 other times:

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-12 Thread TheGag96 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 11:19:26 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 00:26:09 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:12:36PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ Not bad, but it seems to be

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-12 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 08:31:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Yes, having the author do an AMA is very productive. I'm literally busy writing D!

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-12 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 12:25:32 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: It's mostly valid, but it lacks about fifty new articles that would need to be added. Also keep in mind it's not a structured learning resource, it was all about emphasizing this or that particular and rarely needed

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-12 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 11:44:31 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 11:19:26 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 00:26:09 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:12:36PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...]

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-12 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 11:19:26 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 00:26:09 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:12:36PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ Not bad, but it seems to be

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-12 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 00:26:09 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:12:36PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ Not bad, but it seems to be missing some of the newer idioms. It's because I lack the time to

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-12 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/11/2021 5:53 PM, James Lu wrote: On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 20:12:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Now #5 on the front page of https://news.ycombinator.com/news I've gotten Dlang to the frontpage of HN 3 other times: Specification for the D Programming Language

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-11 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 20:12:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Now #5 on the front page of https://news.ycombinator.com/news The page being discussed: https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ and on reddit:

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-11 Thread James Lu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 20:12:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Now #5 on the front page of https://news.ycombinator.com/news I've gotten Dlang to the frontpage of HN 3 other times: Specification for the D Programming Language https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21993208 D 2.0.93.0

Re: Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-11 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:12:36PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] > https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ Not bad, but it seems to be missing some of the newer idioms. Like the templated static this trick for transparently encoding compile-time information at runtime.

Idioms for the D programming language

2021-02-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
Now #5 on the front page of https://news.ycombinator.com/news The page being discussed: https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ and on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lhssjp/idioms_for_the_d_programming_language/