Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 21/01/16 12:22 AM, epsilomish wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 20/01/16 11:58 PM, Joakim wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 03:13:38 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41sdzj/walter_bright_on_being_a_developer_running_an/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the link, just watched all four parts.  I'm not sure Walter
>>> is the right speaker for those kids, like having Yoda lecture a bunch of
>>> young padewan.  His half-float example was likely too low-level for that
>>> audience, better to show something you'd do in ruby or python and
>>> explain how it'd run _much_ faster in D, while not much more difficult
>>> to write.
>>
>> From what Walter said, they all knew c. So not really too low level
>> for them.
>
> But half-float uses the 'alias this' trick, furthemore on a getter
> function. Without a bit of D knowledge you can't get how it's subtle.

Yeah I agree, alias this was definitely too much for them.
But half float wasn't an issue IMO.