The problem that took him 5 years to fix in C++, I solved in a minute with D

[bachmeier]

On Thursday, 10 March 2022 at 14:02:20 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 March 2022 at 12:23:23 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> On Thursday, 10 March 2022 at 11:50:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
>> Grøstad wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Because negative advertising doesn't work, it is negative and 
>>> will be perceived as whining.
>>
>> Advertising? This is a community forum, where community 
>> members express personal opinions. There's nothing wrong with 
>> discussions about the pros and cons of different programming 
>> languages as long as they're civil. I'm not about to tell 
>> people to never say anything negative about any language, 
>> including those same people who keep popping to remind us of 
>> D's shortcomings every time one of these discussions appears.
>
> It wouldn't be so bad if they were making good points. It's not 
> productive to counter with "D isn't good at X" where X is 
> neither on topic or relevant to the vast majority of 
> programmers. It's an emotional response to someone pointing out 
> weaknesses in C++. We'd all be better off if they'd stay in 
> their C++ bubble and not vandalize otherwise interesting 
> discussions.

This is one of the most spectacular cases of off-topic 
vandalization of a forum discussion, in a thread announcing 
Facebook had started using D in production:

https://forum.dlang.org/post/wllaccthfrnvquuhsbsr@forum.dlang.org