[that_guy_iain]

> Do you know the joke with "I'll repeat the joke to you until you understand it?".

Nope. That's not a joke. That's not funny.

> That's why some things get reposted and upvoted. In hope of getting someone else to understand them.

No, they get reposted and upvoted by sock accounts in hope that someone will finally be interested in a 30 year old programming language.

> By the way, do you complain about sock accounts when yet another "Here is this problem, and by the way we sell a product that claims to solve it" gets upvoted?

What does content marketing have to do with sock accounts?

I'm honestly not sure what point you thought was getting made. Do you honestly think people don't understand D? It's been looked at repeatedly and still nothing cool is built in it.

[nottorp]

> What does content marketing have to do with sock accounts?

If you accuse interesting subjects of being pushed by sock accounts, why wouldn't content marketing, which has even more interest in getting to the front page, be pushed by sock accounts?

[that_guy_iain]

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[its_magic]

You're harsh but that's OK. There is a lot of truth in what you're saying. I really wish people would quit downvoting everything they disagree with. HN would be 100x better if both the downvote and flag buttons were removed.

To me, a C guy, the focus on garbage collection is a turn-off. I'm aware that D can work without it, but it's unclear how much of the standard library etc works fine with no garbage collection. That hasn't been explained, that I saw at least.

The biggest problem however is the bootstrapping requirement, which is annoyingly difficult or too involved. (See explanation in my other post.)

[that_guy_iain]

I'm not sure how I'm being harsh. It's literally a somewhat well known programming language being reposted for the 100th time or something silly like that. I'm literally just pointing out the truth and it's almost certainly the main poster downvoting things.