Talk on D at DORS/CLUC

[Atila Neves]

On Friday, 10 May 2024 at 10:59:37 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
> On Friday, 10 May 2024 at 10:26:31 UTC, Dukc wrote:
>> RazvanN kirjoitti 10.5.2024 klo 11.43:
>> > What do you think that I should focus my talk on?
>>
>> The fact that a language needn't have a built-in GC x-or be 
>> designed for system-level control. No mainstream language does 
>> both but D does.
>>
>> I'm bad at understanding marketing though so don't listen to 
>> me if you feel you know better.
>
> I want to structure my talk in 2 parts:
>
> - one "theoretical" part where I enumerate all the cool stuff D 
> does (this is where I will mention the GC and no-GC part)
> - one practical part where I show snippets of D code which 
> should prompt a "wow" reaction.
>
> I have the first part covered, I'm more interested in the 
> second part if folks have any suggestions.

I'm not sure I know what will wow people either. I thought my 
blog post showing how easy (2 lines) it is to call nanomsg from 
Python via D got all sorts of pushback, which wasn't what I was 
expecting. For me at least the wow factor in D is how much gets 
done with so little.