D's Auto Decoding and You

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 14:06:37 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> http://jackstouffer.com/blog/d_auto_decoding_and_you.html
>
> Based on the recent thread in General, I wrote this blog post 
> that's designed to be part beginner tutorial, part objective 
> record of the debate over it, and finally my opinions on the 
> matter.

I probably would have preferred this split up into two parts with 
one on the tutorial and one on the record of the debate. It seems 
to focus more on the debate.

Maybe you could get add a section that was like "for THIS type of 
string, do X for performance" with clear explanations of why that 
is the best way and why other ways will be slower. Then, you can 
have other sub-sections for "for THAT type of string, do Y for 
performance." You have some of this detail in there, but it's 
organized more with respect to the context of the debate, I think.