On Sunday, 28 January 2024 at 18:11:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Some of you may recall the two conversations I had with Walter
a while back, part of what I called the 'D Community
Conversations' series. I've long planned to get that going as a
regular, monthly thing. Finally, the time has come.
I want to thank Martin Kinkelin for agreeing to sit down with
me to chat about his road to programming and to the D language,
how he ended up as the lead maintainer of LDC, and some of the
details about the role.
I very much enjoyed our conversation. I hope you do, too. You
can find it here:
https://youtu.be/XpPV5OBJEvg
The full playlist is here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIldXzSkPUXXEL-2gfragUgNC2P2Yw6au&si=jih87SW_4A7jwRt5
Look for the next episode on the last weekend in February.
LDC is one of the most, if not THE most important project for D,
it produces very fast and competitive executables, not only that
but makes it possible to target all kind of platforms, including
WebAssembly!
Other languages dream of having this DMD + LDC combo, very fast
iteration time with debug builds thanks to DMD and very fast
production code thanks to LDC!
It's super interesting to be able to listen to Martin's story, i
keep hear about how LLVM is painful to work with, mostly during
version upgrades.. I admire you, thanks!
