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

On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:43:52 +0200, 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

Here is a link to the slides from the presentation.

http://slides.com/jonathancrapuchettes/dconf

Jonathan

On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 at 20:54:30 UTC, Jonathan Crapuchettes wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:43:52 +0200, 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
>
> Here is a link to the slides from the presentation.
>
> http://slides.com/jonathancrapuchettes/dconf
>
> Jonathan

I found this talk particularly interesting on a personal level. I worked with OLAP data for a year and it was all Java and JavaScript programming. I had been thinking about how you could improve on either with compile time features in D for massive improvements in speed. This is a market where customers care about speed, and beating your competitors can be worth millions. It's nice to see that someone has done some work in this area.

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

This talk was awesome - thank you Jonathan! I didn't see it when streaming, so thanks for sharing. It's touchy mainly because it brought some memories back. I was running my own business (soon after finishing uni) and got into the data processing world after taking some inquiry.

Funny thing is it's all started when I was asked to create some *excel* stuff dealing with a gov data. I quickly moved to PHP wagon as it was mainstream that days. After I figure out I was betrayed by PHP euphoria I started to look for the perfect programming language. Then I saw D and I knew it was it. Unfortunately  my business didn't pay my bills already at that time, so I had to say sorry to C++ and live with it (full time job).

Now I make a living from C++ (quasi embedded), but D is my number one as the language of choice, so I plan to reopen my business again this time with D from the beginning. Time will tell :)

BTW. As as GUI dependant guy I still consider debugging as Achilles heel of D (as referred in the talk to some extent, i.e. stack traces, mangling etc).

My programming language path (only languages included with more than 10k LOC written as I dealt with Python, Java, Matlab, Visual Basic and other "crap")
1. Pascal (high school)
2. C++ (high school and uni)
3. PHP (late years of uni)
4. PHP (own business)
5. PHP + D (closing my business)
5. C++ (a regular job)
6. D (the future ;))

Piotrek

On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 at 21:20:42 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 at 20:54:30 UTC, Jonathan Crapuchettes wrote:
>> On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:43:52 +0200, 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
>>
>> Here is a link to the slides from the presentation.
>>
>> http://slides.com/jonathancrapuchettes/dconf
>>
>> Jonathan
>
> I found this talk particularly interesting on a personal level.

Heh. Check my post. Wish I had more experience that days ;)

Piotrek

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Jonathan Crapuchettes via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

> Here is a link to the slides from the presentation.
>
> http://slides.com/jonathancrapuchettes/dconf

Very nice talk! And quite an interesting piece of software you built there.
Thanks also for sharing the slides: it's fun to see that much
templated code in a presentation and it's nice to be able to pore over
some of it.

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

Mirror: http://youtu.be/TlqVu9RtoeY

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

I seems that both of you are quite confused between clang and
LLVM.

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Jonathan Crapuchettes
> Here is a link to the slides from the presentation.
>
> http://slides.com/jonathancrapuchettes/dconf


On the 'issues with D' slide, you cite 'Can't get member names from Tuples'. Do you mean:

alias Entry = Tuple!(int, "index", string, "value");

=> getting ["index", "value"]

?

On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 21:51:14 +0200, Philippe Sigaud via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Jonathan Crapuchettes
>> Here is a link to the slides from the presentation.
>>
>> http://slides.com/jonathancrapuchettes/dconf
> 
> 
> On the 'issues with D' slide, you cite 'Can't get member names from
> Tuples'.
> Do you mean:
> 
> alias Entry = Tuple!(int, "index", string, "value");
> 
> => getting ["index", "value"]
> 
> ?

Yeah, that's what he meant.  Using MemberNames and tupleof(..).stringof give the actual field names which are procedurally generated.  The user- supplied names are simply aliases to the generated fields.