Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)
Lionello Lunesu via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Nov 11 09:30:06 PST 2015
On 11/11/15 23:34, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/11/2015 3:03 AM, Lionello Lunesu wrote:
>> Will share how it's received in an hour ;)
>
>
> This is great! How did it go?
Actually went much better than expected! Very engaging crowd, with good
questions. I think the way I positioned D was being "just another cool
tool in a programmer's toolbox" really resonated with them. It certainly
prevented the usual Go vs D vs Rust kind of competitiveness.
Few of the questions I got were
* Why doesn't D explicitly specify the exceptions that can be thrown?
(To which I answered that I never saw the point in Java and only found
it tedious. This did not convince the person.)
* Can I use D to build for ARM? (I said that the usual ARM code
generators of GDC and LDC could be used, and that the runtime had less
and less [if any] x86 dependencies left.)
* Why the difference between byte[] and char[]? (I explained it as being
a semantic difference, with no difference in memory layout. One can be
indexed meaningfully, the other can't.)
* Can I create an array of shared ints (as opposed to a shared array of
ints)? I said that one could by using shared(int)[], although I have yet
to try this myself.
* Does D use SIMD? (Yes, and it's leveraged automatically when you do
operations on arrays.)
* How do the libraries available to D compare to the others like Go and
Python? (I replied by introducing C/C++ compat and code.dlang.org)
* What if a global function with argument A has the same name as a
member of A? (I talked about function hijacking and how D prevents it.)
I might remember more tomorrow. Will share if I do.
L.
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