Back to Basics at DConf?

[Tejas]

On Friday, 13 May 2022 at 04:19:26 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Friday, 13 May 2022 at 03:31:53 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> On 5/12/22 18:56, forkit wrote:
>>
>> > So...you want to do a talk that challenges D's complexity, by
>> getting
>> > back to basics?
>>
>> I wasn't thinking about challenging complexity but it gives me 
>> ideas.
>>
>> I am looking for concrete topics like templates, classes, 
>> ranges, rvalues, etc. Are those interesting?
>
> I suggest: patterns for @nogc allocation and where D is going 
> with move semantics and reference counting.
>
> Basically, where is D heading with @nogc?
>
> Take each pattern from c++ and Rust and show the D counter 
> part, with an objective analysis that covers pitfalls and areas 
> that need more work.

I feel that it'd be best if any video discussion/talk about move 
semantics happens _after_ [DIP 
1040](https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/72f41cffe68ff1f2d4c033b5728ef37e282461dd/DIPs/DIP1040.md#initialization) is merged/rejected, so that the video doesn't become irrelevan after only a few years.