Back to Basics at DConf?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 03:43:09PM +0000, Johan via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 21:58:33 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> > I am considering proposing a presentation for DConf 2022.
> > 
> > Would a "Back to Basics" style presentation be interesting? If, so
> > what exact topic would you like to see?
> 
> Hey Ali,
>   When I read "Back to basics" on a program language conference, I
> imagine Andrei presenting about some simple common task and then at
> 3/4 of the presentation there is an amazing trick that speeds it up by
> a factor 5, mind is blown and you remember why you like programming so
> much.
[...]

My mental image of this is Ali presenting some simple common task, then
at 3/4 of the presentation there's an amazing trick that lets you write
it in D in 5 times less code than in other languages, and my mind is
blown and I remember why I love D so much. :-P


T

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