Idioms for the D programming language

[James Lu]

On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 08:31:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/11/2021 5:53 PM, James Lu wrote:
>> On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 20:12:36 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> Now #5 on the front page of https://news.ycombinator.com/news
>> 
>> I've gotten Dlang to the frontpage of HN 3 other times:
>> 
>> 
>> Specification for the D Programming Language 
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21993208
>> D 2.0.93.0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23859448
>> Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? 
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23494490
>
> Thank you!

Thanks for the kind words :)

>
>> If you have any particularly interesting and specific pages on 
>> D, feel free to send them to me, so I can post them to HN at 
>> the optimal time. (Furthermore, if you authored it, you should 
>> a comment that explains why you made it and offering to answer 
>> questions– I have found this can turn a regular post into a 
>> frontpage post.)
>
> Yes, having the author do an AMA is very productive.

I once resubmitted with an AMA-style comment, which was the 
difference between getting 12 points and not getting on the 
frontpage, and getting on the frontpage with 158 points.