A Conversation with Martin Kinkelin on LDC

[ryuukk_]

On Sunday, 28 January 2024 at 18:11:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Some of you may recall the two conversations I had with Walter 
> a while back, part of what I called the 'D Community 
> Conversations' series. I've long planned to get that going as a 
> regular, monthly thing. Finally, the time has come.
>
> I want to thank Martin Kinkelin for agreeing to sit down with 
> me to chat about his road to programming and to the D language, 
> how he ended up as the lead maintainer of LDC, and some of the 
> details about the role.
>
> I very much enjoyed our conversation. I hope you do, too. You 
> can find it here:
>
> https://youtu.be/XpPV5OBJEvg
>
> The full playlist is here:
>
> https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIldXzSkPUXXEL-2gfragUgNC2P2Yw6au&si=jih87SW_4A7jwRt5
>
> Look for the next episode on the last weekend in February.


LDC is one of the most, if not THE most important project for D, 
it produces very fast and competitive executables, not only that 
but makes it possible to target all kind of platforms, including 
WebAssembly!

Other languages dream of having this DMD + LDC combo, very fast 
iteration time with debug builds thanks to DMD and very fast 
production code thanks to LDC!

It's super interesting to be able to listen to Martin's story, i 
keep hear about how LLVM is painful to work with, mostly during 
version upgrades.. I admire you, thanks!