Video: Andrei Alexandrescu at @ Lang.NEXT 2012

[Jakob Ovrum]

On Thursday, 12 April 2012 at 13:46:50 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> This video went up a while ago. I would like to comment on it, 
> but I didn't see any thread about it, so here it is.
>
>     Three Unlikely Successful Features of D
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> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/Three-Unlikely-Successful-Features-of-D?format=html5

Some comments:

Using goto for cleanup is a common trick probably known to most 
modern C users. Maybe the C slide should have used goto, or there 
could have been two C slides; the current setup was perhaps 
slightly unfair to C programmers who would never think of writing 
several indentations of rollback-cleanup.

C# programmers might want a word with you about slide #8, as C# 
does have the `using` statement to help with cleanup in a sort-of 
RAII-style way, except it still needs a level of indentation; 
it's not revolutionary and not nearly as good as D style or even 
C++ style cleanup, but it does improve it over the pure Java 
model.

The editor comment would've made a great segue into mentioning 
VisualD - I don't actually know much about the composition of the 
audience, but it is a Microsoft hosted conference :V

I think it's important to emphasize that string mixins are only 
available at compile-time, I think the host of eval()-like 
functions in other languages have soured quite a few people to 
the idea of mixing in strings as code. It should've been obvious 
to anyone who was paying attention, but it's probably worth 
mentioning nevertheless.

Slide #23: font size too big 8)

Anyway, overall, one of the best presentations about D I've seen 
yet, it's always a joy to watch these videos.