D is coming to a town near you

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 09:48:25PM +0400, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
[...]
> In brief I was half-sleeping in a train when a young guy
> takes a seat next to me. He pulls out a laptop and powers it up.
> 
> Idly wondering what I'll see this time around (HTML/JS? Python/Ruby?
> MS Word, PowerPoint?) to my surprise I notice it boots Arch linux.
> 
> Cute... and then the guy starts X11 from the console... (dubious)
> with Xfce (+1 from me, though I'm with Cinnamon now).
> 
> The next thing he does: fire up a terminal and Geany.
> 
> Command line goes like:
> 
> cd Code/D
> 
> cd <some-project>
> 
> git pull
> 
> And then he's off furiously hacking on some GTK-based project written
> in D.  (I omit the details, though the repo is public) Actually it's
> some kind of client-server file transfer utility, alpha quality it
> seems. I even checked the repo, seems like he's involved in some tiny
> software startup.
> 
> Bottom line for me this kind of thing beats TIOBE index any day of the
> week :)
[...]

Wait, wait, so you're saying, this random guy sitting next to you is, of
all things, coding in D, and you didn't even have a conversation with
him?!


T

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