Three Cool Things about D

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On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 17:28:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
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> Andrei

Just watched the whole video, even though I've seen a prior 
version of this talk.  It was different enough in the jokes and 
delivery that I still enjoyed it.  Some notes:

1. Saying "Anywho" to segue to a new topic seems to be a verbal 
tic of Andrei's now.

2. It's claimed that scoped imports sped up D compilation: has 
this been measured?  It would help if measurements were cited, as 
done for compile-time regex performance at the end.

3. It's better that you show usage examples of a PEGGED grammar 
now, as opposed to a previous talk that ended with the mixin 
slide, but I think it'd be best if you actually worked a toy 
example out and showed the generated D code, to really drive the 
point home.  Even better if it wasn't something you could 
trivially write in D itself, like the arithmetic example you gave.