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digitalmars.D.announce - A Conversation with Martin Kinkelin on LDC

reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
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.
Jan 28
next sibling parent reply Johan <j j.nl> writes:
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.


Hey Mike and Martin,
   It's very nice that you took the time to have this conversation 
and record it! Great to be able to put a face to an internet 
name, and hear a little about someones back story :)

I'm happy you touched on Martin's CI work besides his programming 
contributions, because CI/packaging is probably not something 
many people think about when you say "compiler development". The 
(continued) work on CI and automatic release packaging by Martin 
has been enormous. It has taken a huge amount of time and effort 
- and I'm sure a lot of frustration went along with it - but the 
end result really is stellar. As Martin mentions, it works for 
forks as well, great stuff.

cheers,
   Johan
Jan 28
parent Hipreme <msnmancini hotmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 28 January 2024 at 19:12:39 UTC, Johan wrote:

 Hey Mike and Martin,
   It's very nice that you took the time to have this 
 conversation and record it! Great to be able to put a face to 
 an internet name, and hear a little about someones back story :)

 I'm happy you touched on Martin's CI work besides his 
 programming contributions, because CI/packaging is probably not 
 something many people think about when you say "compiler 
 development". The (continued) work on CI and automatic release 
 packaging by Martin has been enormous. It has taken a huge 
 amount of time and effort - and I'm sure a lot of frustration 
 went along with it - but the end result really is stellar. As 
 Martin mentions, it works for forks as well, great stuff.

 cheers,
   Johan


And it is a work that makes a complete difference. Trying always 
to "Build It Yourself" is always a huge pain. There's too much 
setup to be done, and as a cross platform developer, I can see 
how much work it is going there. At least my latest 200 commits 
has been on smooth UX across the platforms for cross compiling. 
One can just wonder how much work it goes to that when you're a 
step lower on compiler development.
Jan 29
prev sibling next sibling parent ryuukk_ <ryuukk.dev gmail.com> writes:
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!
Jan 29
prev sibling next sibling parent jmh530 <john.michael.hall gmail.com> writes:
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.

 [snip]


Thanks to Martin for his hard work on LDC!
Jan 30
prev sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
Martin is indeed a treasure!
Jan 30