Walter and I talk about D in Romania

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On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 at 22:54:40 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> First, the event was recorded. There was a professional A/V 
> studio working with multiple cameras, additional lighting, the 
> works (though they did have some audio problems in the 
> beginning). Andrei confirmed that the recordings will be 
> published.
>

Super good news.

> The audience was packed - 400 people in total. Quite amazing. I 
> did not recognize anyone, which on the other hand is great 
> because the event reached 399 people new to D :) Also the % of 
> women was much higher than the past DConfs I've attended. There 
> were a few people in the audience familiar with 
> recent/untraditional programming languages (Rust, Nim, Haskell) 
> so there was some nice dialogue at times (Andrei had to impose 
> a budget on the first 5 rows to get the rest of the audience to 
> participate).
>

Super good news as well :)

> Andrei's first talk was mainly concerning with "pure", its 
> variants (strong/weak), rules and benefits, as well as a quick 
> description of CTFE and the famous ctRegex benchmark where D 
> beats everything else. I'm not sure if some slides were skipped 
> over due to time constraints.
>

I think I've seen that one so many time I could do it myself :)

> Walter's talk was about how D was extended to gradually support 
> more ways to interface with C++ (class/vtable layouts, 
> namespaces, extern(C++), name mangling etc.) and how it helped 
> DDMD.
>

DO WANT :)

> This was all for the conference. We took the rest of the 
> weekend to tour Brașov and do some sightseeing. The most 
> striking thing about the city is the number of roundabouts - 
> probably 90% of intersections were replaced by them! If you're 
> around, do make sure to make the climb to the mountain looming 
> above the old city (or just take the cable car), the view is 
> awesome.

The city I originally come from is well know for its overuse of 
roundabout as well, preferably all the most confusing forms they 
can exist, like this : 
http://www.lacaravane.com/photos/double-rondpoint-Nantes.jpg or 
that : 
https://inconvenantes.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/rond-point-bouche-dc3a9vier.jpg