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I think that's nice in theory, but not true in practice. If someone new to D comes across this post, their assumption will almost certainly be that this post co

by dbaupp 8y ago

I think that's nice in theory, but not true in practice. If someone new to D comes across this post, their assumption will almost certainly be that this post comes from a place of deep expertise and represents some form of best practice ("the language owners approved it"). (Also, just to be clear, I had a typo before: wildly -> widely.)

acqq 8y ago
Really, no. This is official: https://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html https://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html A blog entry with an experience of one user is just a blog entry with an experience of one user, and has exactly that much relevance, no matter where it is hosted. Where do you see that it was "peer reviewed" or that it is somehow or somewhere claimed to be a "recommended way" for anything at all? You surely can't interpret your own belief (which is wrong) and claim that it's an "official" recommendation for "the way" something is to be done "in general" when writing D. It is just your own belief. You can only claim that you have subjectively and personally got that impression (that the post is more relevant than it is) but nothing more.
- richardwhiuk 8y ago
  It's written on the main D language website - not just some random persons blog?
  - acqq 8y ago
    It actually is almost a such. The category in which it appeared is "Guest Posts", that is, in the category where: "Now and again, we’ll publish a post in which D users talk of their experiences with D, not about specific projects, but about the language itself. They’ll tell of things like their favorite features, why they use it, how it has changed the way they write code, or anything they’d like to say that expresses how they feel about programming in D." https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/14/user-stories-funkwerk/ https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/14/user-stories-funkwerk/ Moreover, the article starts with "I initially started my research project using the Ada 2012 programming language (see my article “Experiences on Writing Ada Bindings for a C Library” in Ada User Journal, Volume 39, Number 1, March 2018)." "After some unsatisfying experiments with Java and Python, I settled on the D programming language." It's obviously a D language beginner writing about his experiences. Showing his code. Which worked for him. Nothing wrong with that.

by dbaupp 8y ago

acqq 8y ago

Really, no. This is official: https://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html https://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html A blog entry with an experience of one user is just a blog entry with an experience of one user, and has exactly that much relevance, no matter where it is hosted. Where do you see that it was "peer reviewed" or that it is somehow or somewhere claimed to be a "recommended way" for anything at all? You surely can't interpret your own belief (which is wrong) and claim that it's an "official" recommendation for "the way" something is to be done "in general" when writing D. It is just your own belief. You can only claim that you have subjectively and personally got that impression (that the post is more relevant than it is) but nothing more.

richardwhiuk 8y ago
It's written on the main D language website - not just some random persons blog?
- acqq 8y ago
  It actually is almost a such. The category in which it appeared is "Guest Posts", that is, in the category where: "Now and again, we’ll publish a post in which D users talk of their experiences with D, not about specific projects, but about the language itself. They’ll tell of things like their favorite features, why they use it, how it has changed the way they write code, or anything they’d like to say that expresses how they feel about programming in D." https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/14/user-stories-funkwerk/ https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/14/user-stories-funkwerk/ Moreover, the article starts with "I initially started my research project using the Ada 2012 programming language (see my article “Experiences on Writing Ada Bindings for a C Library” in Ada User Journal, Volume 39, Number 1, March 2018)." "After some unsatisfying experiments with Java and Python, I settled on the D programming language." It's obviously a D language beginner writing about his experiences. Showing his code. Which worked for him. Nothing wrong with that.