• Joakim (26/26) Oct 17 2016 I recently reread Walter's 2012 article, as it's _the_ piece I

Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:

I recently reread Walter's 2012 article, as it's _the_ piece I 
recommend to others who want to know about D from a technical 
perspective:

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/component-programming-in-d/240008321

Given the great success of H.S Teoh's subsequent article with a 
long example of implementing a calendar,

http://wiki.dlang.org/Component_programming_with_ranges
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1jtzez/component_programming_with_ranges/

to the point where there was even a CppCon talk stepping through 
Teoh's calendar example using Boost Ranges and the equivalent C++ 
syntax,

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mFUXNMfaciE

it would be great to have a follow-up article that expanded on 
the original article, talked about practical experience over the 
subsequent years, and emphasized the context and differences from 
other languages of this concept, some of which Andrei mentioned 
in the reddit comments at that time:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/10u6sk/component_programming_in_d/

I think a follow-up article, perhaps published as a post on the 
dlang blog, would get more attention nowadays and maybe get more 
people to read the original article, similar to how Voldemort 
types got much more attention on reddit recently:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/telhj/voldemort_types_in_d/
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/523hm3/til_the_d_language_has_a_voldemort_type/

I would like to read such an article, and I think it would get 
more attention on the language, ie provide some marketing.