On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 at 16:43:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
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> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/277k5c/dconf_2014_day_1_talk_2_templates_in_the_wild_a/
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> Andrei

One thing that positively surprised me is how deep into advanced D features some snippets go. Back when I was doing C++ usage of any overly advanced template tricks was highly discouraged with a reasoning that it will make application non-maintainable by anyone else but original author and it will eventually crush under technical debt. The fact that D makes it possible to actually use the language power in team with varying proficiency level and still move forward successfully - that is a great indicator of design success alone.

On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 02:57:47 -0400, Dicebot <public@dicebot.lv> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 at 16:43:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
>>
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/277k5c/dconf_2014_day_1_talk_2_templates_in_the_wild_a/
>>
>> Andrei
>
> One thing that positively surprised me is how deep into advanced D features some snippets go. Back when I was doing C++ usage of any overly advanced template tricks was highly discouraged with a reasoning that it will make application non-maintainable by anyone else but original author and it will eventually crush under technical debt. The fact that D makes it possible to actually use the language power in team with varying proficiency level and still move forward successfully - that is a great indicator of design success alone.

Yes, and that is a very common theme amongst all the talks at dconf.

-Steve