Talk on D at DORS/CLUC

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On Friday, 10 May 2024 at 13:23:01 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Friday, 10 May 2024 at 08:43:14 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Next week I'm going to have a talk on D at an open source 
>> conference in Zagrab [1].
>> This is a great opportunity to advertise D so I'm going to 
>> talk about D's strength's. However, the talk is only 30 
>> minutes in length and there's a lot of things I could 
>> potentially touch on - templates, dynamic arrays, safety, C 
>> interoperability etc. What do you think that I should focus my 
>> talk on? Any suggestions or cool D snippets are welcome.
>>

You could start by demonstrating a C interpreter, (which under 
the hood is a
`alias cint="dmd -run"`, which you don't reveal yet).
Then surprise the audience with associative arrays, working out 
of the box, and perhaps CTFE working on a file.
Explain then that you are still in the same "interpreter" but in 
a slightly better language (D).
Give more demonstrations of Ds features then reveal that the 
interpreter is in fact a very fast compiler.
Perhaps then present the EBay table processing code for a 
commercial application using CTFE.