Quotes from DConf 2016

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

I've gone through about seven sessions in the archived livestream 
videos and here are some quotes that stood out for me.  Share 
your memorable quotes, for those deciding what to watch.

"Normally, I'd have somebody in the company say, 'OK, what can I 
do in D that I can't do in C++?'

Every time, I'd tell them, 'You can save time.'

That's the big thing with it, and a lot of the code you can just 
set up and it just works behind the scenes and requires no 
programmer maintenance _at all_ and no programmer boilerplate 
code is just insane compared to C++."
Ethan Watson at 1:04:30 mark in 
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/86359657

"CTFE is really a hack.  You can see that it's a hack, it's 
implemented as a hack.  It is the most useful hack that I've ever 
seen, and it is definitely a hacker's tool to do stuff that are 
like magic.  But to be fast, it would need to be heavily 
redesigned, reimplemented, possibly executed in multiple threads, 
because it is used for stuff that we could never have envisioned 
when it was invented.

Like, it was more like this accidental thing, 'Yeah, you have 
this mixin and you can do stuff with strings' and this feature, 
CTFE, just turned out to be so useful and so heavily used, which 
was probably never anticipated.  So what should be made better 
about CTFE is _all of it_.  We need to reimplement it properly 
and then it will be really great."
Stefan Koch at 2:13:35 mark in 
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/86364066