DConf 2013 Opening Keynote by Walter Bright: video and slides available

[JN]

Can't wait for Manu's slides/video to come up :)

I have to disagree with some of the points in the keynote though. 
The part with "algorithm in D" example, I don't know but map(a => 
a.idup) isn't exactly obvious. About the scope vs no-scope - it'd 
be interesting to see how try-finally version looks like in 
comparison.

About the IDE discussion near the end of keynote - I know a lot 
of you people are happy just using Vim/Emacs + command line 
compiling, but having a proper IDE is a big part in language 
adoption nowadays. I can't speak for VisualD and MonoD, but I've 
heard they are nice, I am using DDT which is also good, although 
debugging on windows with DMD isn't that fun. A good example 
would be Visual Basic 6.0 - everyone seems to hate it, yet a lot 
of people (mostly non-programmers) use it to make apps because in 
few clicks you can make a GUI application. Same would apply to 
Java too - language isn't the best there is, and coding Java 
without Netbeans/Eclipse/IntelliJ would be a new dimension of 
pain but with those IDEs writing stuff is 'fun'.

All in all, great to see D community getting together to discuss 
and share stuff =)