Iain Buclaw at GNU Tools Cauldron 2018

[Iain Buclaw]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 at 07:15, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, 7 October 2018 at 15:41:43 UTC, greentea wrote:
> > Date: September 7 to 9, 2018.
> > Location: Manchester, UK
> >
> > GDC - D front-end GCC
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXRJJ_lrSxE
>
> Thanks for the link, just watched the whole video. The first
> half-hour sets the standard as an intro to the language, as only
> a compiler developer other than the main implementer could give,
> ie someone with fresh eyes.
>
> I loved that Iain started off with a list of real-world projects.
> That's a mistake a lot of tech talks make, ie not motivating
> _why_ anybody should care about their tech and simply diving into
> the tech itself. I hadn't heard some of that info either, great
> way to begin.
>
> My only nitpick is that I wish he'd emphasized how much of a
> focus D puts on metaprogramming, as I've noticed a lot of
> comments on proggit/HN/etc. saying that the power and ease of use
> of D's metaprogramming really stood out for them when trying the
> language.

Thanks, one of the feedbacks I got mentioned ripping out most grammar
stuff and putting more emphasis on key selling points, however by the
time I received that memo, I think it was 3 days before I was due to
actually give the talk.  All I had time for was just ripping out
stanza after stanza of notes I had written up.

It may or may not be obvious that I wanted to attempt to describe
aspects with a slight affinity to how the landscape looks from the
ABI/Codegen side, of which compile-time features get even less
deserving attention.  Not to forget, talking about just the D language
as a whole is easily a 3 hour talk, and I felt that I didn't really
want to put too much emphasis on one part or another, especially when
condensing it down to 25 minutes.

This also meant I was pretty much all was going off an auto-cue I had
pre-authored and polished.  I wasn't really in the mood for winging it
this time around as I've perhaps done in former Dconf talks - to which
from 2017's experience, I can quite happily go on a tangent for hours
and hours and...

-- 
Iain