[OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

[Abdulhaq]

On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 14:45:19 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
>
> I forgot the link... here it is:
> https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-sense-of-the-present-brains-may-predict-the-future-20180710
>

An interesting article. I found that Dennet's Consciousness 
Explained, which is presumably debunked old hat by now, is full 
of interesting experiments and speculation about how we model 
things in our mind and how our perceptions feed into that. It's a 
long time since I read it but if I remember correctly he shows 
how we seem to have a kind of mental theatre which has an 
expectation of what will come next from the senses, leading to 
interesting mistakes in perception. It's a useful model of how 
the mind works.

That website often carries good articles about new maths as well.

>
> Me and my colleague are pretty different, in the approach to 
> that kind of stuff...
>
> Maybe I'll post on the Forum a 'Request for D Advocacy', a-la 
> PostgreSQL, so the community can try to address some of his 
> concerns about modern D, and lower his discomfort!
>
> :-P

If you can explain to me what is the _direction_ of D in terms of 
interfacing with large C++ libraries it would be very much 
appreciated! I'd love to be using D for some of my projects but I 
have a perception that using e.g. VTK is still a difficult thing 
to do from D. Is that still true? What is the long term plan for 
D, is it extern(C++), a binding technology? Is there any interest 
in Calypso from the upper echelons? I want to know where D is 
trying to go, not just where it is now. I want to know if anyone 
has got their heart in it.

My CV says my main languages are Java, Python and D. That last 
one is mainly wishful thinking at the moment. I wish it wasn't! 
Make me believe, Paulo!