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Adam D. Ruppe
Personal blog · arsdnet.net/this-week-in-dprogramming
Adam D. Ruppe's personal blog at arsdnet.net covers programming. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts by Adam D. Ruppe on the D programming language, including his 'This Week in D' series. Comments discuss D's compile speed, betterC and the language's direction.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /this-week-in-d/2016-dec-18.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-28
What Hacker News says?
> How fast is D compiler on a 100k line project? I have a 140k line multi-purpose library that compiles in 2 1/2 seconds on my i5 computer w/ ssd. But this varies very heavily depending on what language features you use (compile time execution of functions can make a 3 line program compile in many minutes, or simple C-style code can compile 100k lines in a fraction of a second). So don't generalize too fast! Re web…
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on “Idioms for the D Programming Language”Submitted This Week in D: DConf 2015 report, new forum site, and more as a story · 30 points
HN discussion> point at betterC which remains half-assed for about a decade now (search my blog archives, here's one with them talking about "A betterC standard library" from December 2016 - https://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/2016-dec-18.html - and none of that has materialized ). Oof, yeah that is definitely a pain point. Not to get too personal, but why would you continue to invest so much time in the language if upstream isn'…
Comment linking /this-week-in-d/2016-dec-18.html
on “DConf 2026 in London”Submitted This Week in D, issue 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI have no confidence left in the leadership of old D. This is an example: porting druntime to emscripten wasn't actually that hard to do, I did it in about a week of spare time in between kid and day job. Their solution, in so much as they pay attention to it at all, is to just point at betterC which remains half-assed for about a decade now (search my blog archives, here's one with them talking about "A betterC sta…
Comment linking /this-week-in-d/2016-dec-18.html
on “DConf 2026 in London”