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

[JN]

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/