std.variant Is Everything Cool About D

[Mike Parker]

On Friday, 30 March 2018 at 02:46:13 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Friday, 30 March 2018 at 00:37:27 UTC, Meta wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, this turned out to be the worst possible day 
>> for me to try to actively monitor the thread and respond to 
>> questions. I'm surprised that people latched onto my little 
>> quip about C++ using the name variant for a tagged union.
>
> It seems that any comment in a D article that refers to C++ 
> will be construed in the worst possible way on reddit...

That's fine by me. Right now, this post is the fourth most-viewed 
this year and it's not far off from number three.

While I would love to please the reddit crowd to the extent that 
we see no negativity, I'm quite happy with the fact that our 
comment threads there are nowhere near as negative as they used 
to be. Posts that do generate this level of discussion have 
higher views.

I can't dismiss reddit comments completely, but I don't put as 
much weight on them as I used to. A subreddit is somewhat 
comparable to a forum for a popular video game -- lots of vocal 
people who are actually a small minority of the player base. We 
can't measure the number of people who click the reddit link to 
the blog and come away from it with a positive impression. They 
aren't going to bother commenting on reddit.