Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

[epsilomish via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 21:38:55 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:

On 1/20/2016 12:41 PM, epsilomish wrote:
Actually, the 'alias this' is probably not that much a 
problem. In their shoes I
would even ask myself: mmh what is this obscure feature, let's 
have a deeper
look to D...Anyway the technical part of the talk is small, 
there is the thing
about lexical D t_h_i_n_g_s, the octal template and 
half-floats...It globally

works.


I wanted a mix of trivial and advanced stuff, so there was 
something for everyone.


That's well reflected, despite of my first comment.

One thing I'd like to say in reaction the first part: noise and 
fan.
Personally I can't live without noise anymore. I used to be 
obsessional about silence but now I think it's very relaxing to 
have a fan turning again and again, by fan I mean:


http://www.cinni.com.au/images/pedestalFans.jpg

They produce a LF vibe which is very relaxing. For example now, 
here, where I live:


https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.5591464,7.7793422,9z?hl=fr

It's 21.2 F° outside, but I still have the good vibes from the 
low frequency generator in my computer room. a steady purr.

Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

[epsilomish via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:

On 20/01/16 11:58 PM, Joakim wrote:

On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 03:13:38 UTC, deadalnix wrote:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41sdzj/walter_bright_on_being_a_developer_running_an/



Thanks for the link, just watched all four parts.  I'm not 
sure Walter
is the right speaker for those kids, like having Yoda lecture 
a bunch of
young padewan.  His half-float example was likely too 
low-level for that
audience, better to show something you'd do in ruby or python 
and
explain how it'd run _much_ faster in D, while not much more 
difficult

to write.


From what Walter said, they all knew c. So not really too low 
level for them.


But half-float uses the 'alias this' trick, furthemore on a 
getter function. Without a bit of D knowledge you can't get how 
it's subtle.