Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

[epsilomish via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:24:11 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:
> On 21/01/16 12:22 AM, epsilomish wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki 
>> Cattermole wrote:
>>> On 20/01/16 11:58 PM, Joakim wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 03:13:38 UTC, deadalnix 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41sdzj/walter_bright_on_being_a_developer_running_an/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the link, just watched all four parts.  I'm not 
>>>> sure Walter
>>>> is the right speaker for those kids, like having Yoda 
>>>> lecture a bunch of
>>>> young padewan.  His half-float example was likely too 
>>>> low-level for that
>>>> audience, better to show something you'd do in ruby or 
>>>> python and
>>>> explain how it'd run _much_ faster in D, while not much more 
>>>> difficult
>>>> to write.
>>>
>>> From what Walter said, they all knew c. So not really too low 
>>> level
>>> for them.
>>
>> But half-float uses the 'alias this' trick, furthemore on a 
>> getter
>> function. Without a bit of D knowledge you can't get how it's 
>> subtle.
>
> Yeah I agree, alias this was definitely too much for them.
> But half float wasn't an issue IMO.

Actually, the 'alias this' is probably not that much a problem. 
In their shoes I would even ask myself: mmh what is this obscure 
feature, let's have a deeper look to D...Anyway the technical 
part of the talk is small, there is the thing about lexical D 
t_h_i_n_g_s, the octal template and half-floats...It globally 
works.