DConf 2013 keynote

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Fri May 10 07:29:20 PDT 2013


On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:32:18PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Thu, 09 May 2013 10:26:46 -0400
> Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 5/9/13 10:26 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > > With all this focus on technicalities, we forgot to discuss the
> > > gist of it: what did you guys think of the talk?
> > >
> > 
> > That should better go in the digitalmars.D group though...
> > 
> 
> Very good talk! And good production quality, too. This would be a
> great thing to point people towards to introduce them to D.

+1. I listened to the talk yesterday... it was awesome! Can't wait for
the other videos to be put up.

One tiny nitpick, though. In the example about sorting lines in a file,
there was a syntax error in the code (missing '.' and the end of the
first/second line). I know, I know ... but it was distracting me from
what Walter was saying, my brain keeps going "but there's a syntax
error! Is he going to talk about the syntax error? It's a syntax
error!..." :-P


[...]
> I love the D-like line on the first slide. Kind of a strange API being
> used ;), but quintessentially D syntax. Cute :) The "100 lines of
> boilerplate" bit was great too. Made me cheer even though no one else
> was around.
[...]

Yeah, pretty much sums up how I feel about IDEs. But OTOH, the question
at the end from the professor/lecturer proves that the majority of
today's coders expect IDEs. I would vote for better education, but you
can't deny the need for IDEs to at least smooth the transition from
other languages.

In any case, I totally agree that if a language *needs* an IDE in order
to cope with the amount of required boilerplate, then something is
clearly very, very wrong at a fundamental level. I guess that's why I'm
a D fan. :)


T

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