From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

[aberba]

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)?