Hey guys,

we organize a conference (TopConf) this year for the first time in Dusseldorf, Germany. I would like to see if there are interested speakers to give a talk about D. The conference is hold in English and is not specific to a single programming language but will feature multiple different ones as well as some more soft-skill like sessions / tracks.

I'm looking forward to see if there are interested people. The CFP page is available here: https://www.topconf.com/conference/duesseldorf-2017/callforpaper

Thanks,
Chris

PS: Feel free to ask for further information :)

On Thursday, 2 February 2017 at 21:09:38 UTC, Chris Engelbert wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> we organize a conference (TopConf) this year for the first time in Dusseldorf, Germany. I would like to see if there are interested speakers to give a talk about D. The conference is hold in English and is not specific to a single programming language but will feature multiple different ones as well as some more soft-skill like sessions / tracks.
>
> I'm looking forward to see if there are interested people. The CFP page is available here: https://www.topconf.com/conference/duesseldorf-2017/callforpaper
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> PS: Feel free to ask for further information :)

Hello Chris, would you also be interested in a more compiler-internals related talk about D ?
If so I am happy to volunteer.

On Thursday, 2 February 2017 at 21:09:38 UTC, Chris Engelbert wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> we organize a conference (TopConf) this year for the first time in Dusseldorf, Germany. I would like to see if there are interested speakers to give a talk about D. The conference is hold in English and is not specific to a single programming language but will feature multiple different ones as well as some more soft-skill like sessions / tracks.
>
> I'm looking forward to see if there are interested people. The CFP page is available here: https://www.topconf.com/conference/duesseldorf-2017/callforpaper


I'm tempted and will think about it.

Topic idea one: Dust off my "Functional Programming in D" [0] talk. However, it is tight in 40 minutes for an audience, which probably does not know D at all.

Topic idea two: A more general talk about abstractions. Starting from the basics (procedures) up to Design-by-Introspection techniques which are quite D specific. In between stuff like the "magic" D Lua bindings. This topic is probably interesting for C++ and Java programmers as well. Other TopConf talks and thus the audience seem to be quite mainstream.

[0] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/functional_D.html

On Friday, 3 February 2017 at 11:31:26 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> Hello Chris, would you also be interested in a more compiler-internals related talk about D ?
> If so I am happy to volunteer.

To me personally it would be extremely interesting but not sure about the audience overall. But maybe a bit of an excursion into compiler design on the example of D? WDYT?

On Friday, 3 February 2017 at 12:08:44 UTC, qznc wrote:
> I'm tempted and will think about it.
>
> Topic idea one: Dust off my "Functional Programming in D" [0] talk. However, it is tight in 40 minutes for an audience, which probably does not know D at all.
>
> Topic idea two: A more general talk about abstractions. Starting from the basics (procedures) up to Design-by-Introspection techniques which are quite D specific. In between stuff like the "magic" D Lua bindings. This topic is probably interesting for C++ and Java programmers as well. Other TopConf talks and thus the audience seem to be quite mainstream.
>
> [0] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/functional_D.html

From the fact that TopConf audience is historically quite Java / C++ driven I think both should work. For the FD talk depending on how deep you want to go (looking at the link I would expect it to work out :-)).

In general both talks sound interesting, would have a hard time decide it just now!

On Monday, 6 February 2017 at 15:56:26 UTC, Chris Engelbert wrote:
> On Friday, 3 February 2017 at 11:31:26 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> Hello Chris, would you also be interested in a more compiler-internals related talk about D ?
>> If so I am happy to volunteer.
>
> To me personally it would be extremely interesting but not sure about the audience overall. But maybe a bit of an exclursion into compiler design on the example of D? WDYT?

Hmm I could talk about the various compile-time mechanics of D.
Using Sqlite-D[1] as an example, and tie into the compiler implementations, which explain why I wrote a particular piece of code the way I did.

That way it could still be focusing the application side of things.

On Monday, 6 February 2017 at 16:50:00 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> Hmm I could talk about the various compile-time mechanics of D.
> Using Sqlite-D[1] as an example, and tie into the compiler implementations, which explain why I wrote a particular piece of code the way I did.
>
> That way it could still be focusing the application side of things.

Please submit, I'm not deciding alone, therefore I can't give a final answer here but to me it sounds interesting :)

On Friday, 3 February 2017 at 12:08:44 UTC, qznc wrote:
> Topic idea two: A more general talk about abstractions. Starting from the basics (procedures) up to Design-by-Introspection techniques which are quite D specific. In between stuff like the "magic" D Lua bindings. This topic is probably interesting for C++ and Java programmers as well. Other TopConf talks and thus the audience seem to be quite mainstream.

Aaaaand accepted :)

https://www.topconf.com/conference//duesseldorf-2017/talk/abstractions-from-c-to-d/

Abstractions: From C to D

Abstraction is about hiding the irrelevant to focus on the relevant.

A master in the art of abstraction will find the right balance between the over-engineered swiss army knife and the tedious boilerplate. This talk starts at common ground for many people: The C programming language. Then we explore more powerful techniques of abstraction enabled by the D programming language with its unique meta programming techniques.

On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 07:32:15 UTC, qznc wrote:
> Aaaaand accepted :)
> https://www.topconf.com/conference//duesseldorf-2017/talk/abstractions-from-c-to-d/
> Abstractions: From C to D

That talk sounds interesting. If the slides and/or video are available after the conf, please post about it here.

On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 21:29:15 UTC, Vasudev Ram wrote:
> On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 07:32:15 UTC, qznc wrote:
>> Aaaaand accepted :)
>> https://www.topconf.com/conference//duesseldorf-2017/talk/abstractions-from-c-to-d/
>> Abstractions: From C to D
>
> That talk sounds interesting. If the slides and/or video are available after the conf, please post about it here.

Sure. The last TopConf conferences were published to Youtube.

I have a plan for the content, but it is not final. If you have any suggestions, I'd like to hear them. :)