Eliminate comparison.html?

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jan 17 10:04:25 PST 2015


On 1/17/15 9:51 AM, Mathias LANG wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 January 2015 at 17:32:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> In https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/778 I'm
>> proposing replacing
>>
>> http://dlang.org/comparison.html
>>
>> with
>>
>> http://erdani.com/d/comparison.html
>>
>> The silly one-column comparison was a vestige of a multi-column
>> comparison that did more harm than good. I replaced it with a simple
>> hierarchical list.
>>
>> However I wonder if we should eliminate the page altogether, or redo
>> it completely. Thoughts?
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> http://dlang.org/features2.html - http://dlang.org/D1toD2.html
> Maybe a good step for 2015 is to get ride of those.

Agreed. Walter?

> Regarding comparison, it feels a bit redundant with overview. However,
> your version is way easyier to "parse" than the wall of text in overview.
> IMO, adding the missing links would make it a suitable replacement.

I think http://dlang.org/overview.html is long in the tooth and needs a 
rewrite or replacement. It's not appropriate for D at this moment, e.g. 
questions like "Why D?" etc. don't need answered anymore.


Andrei



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