DConf 2013 Day 2 Talk 3: C# to D by Adam Wilson

[Adam Wilson]

On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 02:34:39 -0700, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2013-06-02 00:49, Adam Wilson wrote:
>
>> Indeed, but since I was comparing to vanilla C# 4.0 and .NET I figured
>> it was only fair to compare to DMD 2.062 and Phobos. Once you start
>> comparing and contrasting third party libraries the scope of the topic
>> quickly balloons in size. The biggest problem I had in putting this talk
>> together was deciding what to cut. I ended up leaving about 60% of my
>> originally planned content on the cutting room floor... I really wanted
>> to give you guys more!
>
> Yes, sure, for the talk. But if you are actually going to port C# code  
> to D I assume, and hope, you would take a practically approach. That is,  
> using third party libraries if needed and not saying something like "If  
> it's not in Phobos we cannot use it".
>

In real life I would absolutely use third party libraries where available.  
I would definitely recommend people do the same. In retrospect I probably  
should've said something to that effect in the closing of my talk ... So  
many things I would say differently!

-- 
Adam Wilson
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Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
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