On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 at 07:15, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sunday, 7 October 2018 at 15:41:43 UTC, greentea wrote: > > Date: September 7 to 9, 2018. > > Location: Manchester, UK > > > > GDC - D front-end GCC > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXRJJ_lrSxE > > Thanks for the link, just watched the whole video. The first > half-hour sets the standard as an intro to the language, as only > a compiler developer other than the main implementer could give, > ie someone with fresh eyes. > > I loved that Iain started off with a list of real-world projects. > That's a mistake a lot of tech talks make, ie not motivating > _why_ anybody should care about their tech and simply diving into > the tech itself. I hadn't heard some of that info either, great > way to begin. > > My only nitpick is that I wish he'd emphasized how much of a > focus D puts on metaprogramming, as I've noticed a lot of > comments on proggit/HN/etc. saying that the power and ease of use > of D's metaprogramming really stood out for them when trying the > language.
Thanks, one of the feedbacks I got mentioned ripping out most grammar stuff and putting more emphasis on key selling points, however by the time I received that memo, I think it was 3 days before I was due to actually give the talk. All I had time for was just ripping out stanza after stanza of notes I had written up. It may or may not be obvious that I wanted to attempt to describe aspects with a slight affinity to how the landscape looks from the ABI/Codegen side, of which compile-time features get even less deserving attention. Not to forget, talking about just the D language as a whole is easily a 3 hour talk, and I felt that I didn't really want to put too much emphasis on one part or another, especially when condensing it down to 25 minutes. This also meant I was pretty much all was going off an auto-cue I had pre-authored and polished. I wasn't really in the mood for winging it this time around as I've perhaps done in former Dconf talks - to which from 2017's experience, I can quite happily go on a tangent for hours and hours and... -- Iain
