On Sunday, 9 October 2022 at 18:04:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Instead of guessing what people would find interesting, what would you all like to hear me talk about at the upcoming D conference?

Given the biological maxim: All life comes from previously existing life.

I would like to know how to write a program that doesn't descend from a pre-existing program.

On Wednesday, 12 October 2022 at 22:20:13 UTC, Charles_Moore_1970 wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 October 2022 at 18:04:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Instead of guessing what people would find interesting, what would you all like to hear me talk about at the upcoming D conference?
>
> Given the biological maxim: All life comes from previously existing life.
>
> I would like to know how to write a program that doesn't descend from a pre-existing program.

punch cards : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming_in_the_punched_card_era

On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 10:20:13PM +0000, Charles_Moore_1970 via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 October 2022 at 18:04:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > Instead of guessing what people would find interesting, what would you all like to hear me talk about at the upcoming D conference?
> 
> Given the biological maxim: All life comes from previously existing life.
> 
> I would like to know how to write a program that doesn't descend from a pre-existing program.

https://xkcd.com/378/

;-)


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On Wednesday, 12 October 2022 at 22:20:13 UTC, Charles_Moore_1970 wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 October 2022 at 18:04:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Instead of guessing what people would find interesting, what would you all like to hear me talk about at the upcoming D conference?
>
> Given the biological maxim: All life comes from previously existing life.
>
> I would like to know how to write a program that doesn't descend from a pre-existing program.

non-sequitur in line 2.

programs aren't life and never will be.

On Sunday, 9 October 2022 at 18:39:27 UTC, rassoc wrote:
> The reddit thread of the latest blog post had quite a few "why D when there's Rust et al?" questions. How about expanding on that and giving us an outlook on things and where you want the language to be in the months and years to come?

For me it is more like "why Rust when there's D?", not just because D is (much) older than Rust but for many other reasons...

On 10/13/22 13:09, Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> For me it is more like "why Rust when there's D?", not just because D is (much) older than Rust but for many other reasons...

Give us a blog post, I'd love to read it. :)

On Sunday, 9 October 2022 at 18:04:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Instead of guessing what people would find interesting, what would you all like to hear me talk about at the upcoming D conference?

Topic: Special D programming theory of Relativity

Abstract: Did you have a chance in a last couple of years check source codes of other language compilers, their design decisions, write some software or tinkering a code in other languages except C/C++/D?
Which of the decisions and experience did you find as nice and excited and which one controversial and negative. Maybe some of them inspired you for new D features.
How in your opinion in present/future D will be relatively positioned in comparison with other languages?
List of the language (could be improved): modern JVM(Kotlin), Julia, Swift, Rust, Go, Zig, Carbon

On Sunday, 9 October 2022 at 18:04:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Instead of guessing what people would find interesting, what would you all like to hear me talk about at the upcoming D conference?

The future of "Deterministic" Memory Management in D

(deterministic memory management is the reason people use C, C++ and now Rust, talk on how D does it, and what is planned for the future would be interesting)

On Sunday, 9 October 2022 at 18:04:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Instead of guessing what people would find interesting, what would you all like to hear me talk about at the upcoming D conference?

If you want a workshop style of conference then I suggest how error handling should look like. There is desire to get rid of libunwrap and inability to optimize current exceptions. I think there is already a draft for a DIP for value based exceptions. Possible ABI changes for return based exceptions and so on. This is a workshop that we have enough information to have a constructive discussion for possible solutions.

On 15/10/2022 1:41 AM, IGotD- wrote:
> I think there is already a draft for a DIP for value based exceptions.

https://github.com/rikkimax/DIPs/blob/value_type_exceptions/DIPs/DIP1xxx-RC.md