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digitalmars.D.announce - Iain Buclaw at GNU Tools Cauldron 2018

reply greentea <greentea gmail.com> writes:
Date: September 7 to 9, 2018.
Location: Manchester, UK

GDC - D front-end GCC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXRJJ_lrSxE
Oct 07 2018
next sibling parent reply Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:
On Sunday, 7 October 2018 at 15:41:43 UTC, greentea wrote:

 Date: September 7 to 9, 2018.
 Location: Manchester, UK

 GDC - D front-end GCC

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXRJJ_lrSxE


Thanks for the link, just watched the whole video. The first 
half-hour sets the standard as an intro to the language, as only 
a compiler developer other than the main implementer could give, 
ie someone with fresh eyes.

I loved that Iain started off with a list of real-world projects. 
That's a mistake a lot of tech talks make, ie not motivating 
_why_ anybody should care about their tech and simply diving into 
the tech itself. I hadn't heard some of that info either, great 
way to begin.

My only nitpick is that I wish he'd emphasized how much of a 
focus D puts on metaprogramming, as I've noticed a lot of 
comments on proggit/HN/etc. saying that the power and ease of use 
of D's metaprogramming really stood out for them when trying the 
language.
Oct 07 2018
next sibling parent Jon Degenhardt <jond noreply.com> writes:
On Monday, 8 October 2018 at 05:12:03 UTC, Joakim wrote:

 On Sunday, 7 October 2018 at 15:41:43 UTC, greentea wrote:

 Date: September 7 to 9, 2018.
 Location: Manchester, UK

 GDC - D front-end GCC

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXRJJ_lrSxE


 Thanks for the link, just watched the whole video. The first 
 half-hour sets the standard as an intro to the language, as 
 only a compiler developer other than the main implementer could 
 give, ie someone with fresh eyes.

 I loved that Iain started off with a list of real-world 
 projects. That's a mistake a lot of tech talks make, ie not 
 motivating _why_ anybody should care about their tech and 
 simply diving into the tech itself. I hadn't heard some of that 
 info either, great way to begin.


I agree, a very nice talk, including the way the motivation part 
of was handled. I especially liked the example of the group who 
typically used Python for rapid prototyping, then re-wrote in C++ 
for production, who upon trying D for a prototype, were 
pleasantly surprised it was performant enough for production.
Oct 07 2018
prev sibling parent Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> writes:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 at 07:15, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:

 On Sunday, 7 October 2018 at 15:41:43 UTC, greentea wrote:

 Date: September 7 to 9, 2018.
 Location: Manchester, UK

 GDC - D front-end GCC

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXRJJ_lrSxE


 Thanks for the link, just watched the whole video. The first
 half-hour sets the standard as an intro to the language, as only
 a compiler developer other than the main implementer could give,
 ie someone with fresh eyes.

 I loved that Iain started off with a list of real-world projects.
 That's a mistake a lot of tech talks make, ie not motivating
 _why_ anybody should care about their tech and simply diving into
 the tech itself. I hadn't heard some of that info either, great
 way to begin.

 My only nitpick is that I wish he'd emphasized how much of a
 focus D puts on metaprogramming, as I've noticed a lot of
 comments on proggit/HN/etc. saying that the power and ease of use
 of D's metaprogramming really stood out for them when trying the
 language.


Thanks, one of the feedbacks I got mentioned ripping out most grammar
stuff and putting more emphasis on key selling points, however by the
time I received that memo, I think it was 3 days before I was due to
actually give the talk.  All I had time for was just ripping out
stanza after stanza of notes I had written up.

It may or may not be obvious that I wanted to attempt to describe
aspects with a slight affinity to how the landscape looks from the
ABI/Codegen side, of which compile-time features get even less
deserving attention.  Not to forget, talking about just the D language
as a whole is easily a 3 hour talk, and I felt that I didn't really
want to put too much emphasis on one part or another, especially when
condensing it down to 25 minutes.

This also meant I was pretty much all was going off an auto-cue I had
pre-authored and polished.  I wasn't really in the mood for winging it
this time around as I've perhaps done in former Dconf talks - to which
from 2017's experience, I can quite happily go on a tangent for hours
and hours and...

-- 
Iain
Oct 08 2018
prev sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 10/7/2018 8:41 AM, greentea wrote:

 Date: September 7 to 9, 2018.
 Location: Manchester, UK
 
 GDC - D front-end GCC
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXRJJ_lrSxE



Nice work, Iain!
Oct 10 2018