DConf 2014: LAST CALL for submissions and early registration!

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On Thursday, 30 January 2014 at 08:57:24 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 30 January 2014 19:07, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org> 
> wrote:
>
>> On 30 January 2014 04:17, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 30 January 2014 04:47, John Colvin 
>> > <john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 02:53:14 UTC, Andrei 
>> >> Alexandrescu
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Don't forget - Friday night is the deadline for both DConf 
>> >>> submissions
>> >>> and early registrations.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> http://dconf.org
>> >>>
>> >>> It's safe to say we have a quorum already. Also, the 
>> >>> proposals we got
>> are
>> >>> solid. However, we are having fewer submissions, which is 
>> >>> a bit of a
>> >>> letdown.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I think the high quality of the talks last time may have 
>> >> scared
>> >> people off a little, thinking they aren't good enough!
>> >
>> >
>> > I'll say, and I spoke last year! :P
>>
>> Twice!
>>
>
> :P
>
> And I definitely feel more intimidated now thinking about it 
> (and watching
> the replay) than last time ;)

No way, you're two talks and all the others last year were great! 
IMO they were easily on par with the  C++ Going Native, C++ 
Beyond talks I've seen. Many of those are given by devs who 
present *a lot*.

I'd be really interested to hear a talk on optimising D code, 
especially one which dives down in the ASM. You'd be able to do 
that no worries...although I understand presenting is a lot of 
work. Or real-time gfx for games and how you'd approach it in D.

I'd also really like to hear a bit more about the compiler 
design, both back and front end but mainly back end. Going native 
last year had some really interesting talks by the VC compiler 
devs on the VC++ compiler back end and some of the optimisation 
tricks.

It's been said before but every day stuff for you guys isn't for 
others. I work in embedded code all day so hearing about code 
optimisation techniques, idiomatic D code and D compiler and 
language design is fantastic.

I cannot wait for DConf 2014 videos...I'd love to present, but 
too new to D. Maybe in a year or two :D

Cheers,
ed