• Leandro Motta Barros (28/28) Nov 21 2012 Hello everyone!
• Joshua Niehus (5/9) Nov 21 2012 +1
• Era Scarecrow (24/33) Nov 21 2012 And how it simplifies code because of it. Several times I've
• Joseph Rushton Wakeling (3/4) Nov 22 2012 ... perhaps a part on keeping memory use effectively under control _with...
• Tavi Cacina (4/21) Nov 21 2012 good idea.

Leandro Motta Barros <lmb stackedboxes.org> writes:

Hello everyone!

Well, this is actually a "talk proposal for someone else". I'd be the
audience, not the speaker.

TITLE: D Programming in D (Or: Writing idiomatic D code)

ABSTRACT: Every language has its own sanctified idioms. Beginners
learning a new language tend to use the idioms of the languages they
already know in the new language. This is no different for someone
learning D, so we have people doing, say, "C++ programing in D" or
"Lua programming in D". This is not the best way to go. Learning the D
idioms is a very important step to move from "I can write D programs"
to "I know D". This talk presents a survey of the most important
idioms commonly used by the D community. Hopefully, it will help you
to start doing "D programming in D".

SPEAKER BIO: < Your bio here :-) >


I would *really* love to watch a talk (or read a book for that
matter), dealing with this kind of topic. I suppose many other
programmers coming from other languages would benefit from a talk like
this. And considering that we'll have the videos online after the
conference, I'd say that this would become a mostly valuable reference
for all the people that will join D. (We want a million users, right?
They'd all love this talk ;-) )

So, anyone else interested in watching a talk like this?

Anyone interested in *giving* a talk like this?

Cheers,

LMB

PS: It's really great we did it! The news made my day yesterday! I am
pretty sure it will be a great conference! (Even if no one decides to
give the "D Programming in D" talk ;-) )

"Joshua Niehus" <jm.niehus gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 21 November 2012 at 18:42:55 UTC, Leandro Motta 
Barros wrote:
 Well, this is actually a "talk proposal for someone else". I'd 
 be the
 audience, not the speaker.

 TITLE: D Programming in D (Or: Writing idiomatic D code)

+1

I'd like to add, maybe put some focus on "Range" oriented coding 
seeing as Phobos is full or ranges etc...

"Era Scarecrow" <rtcvb32 yahoo.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 21 November 2012 at 22:47:02 UTC, Joshua Niehus 
wrote:
 On Wednesday, 21 November 2012 at 18:42:55 UTC, Leandro Motta 
 Barros wrote:
 Well, this is actually a "talk proposal for someone else". I'd 
 be the audience, not the speaker.

 TITLE: D Programming in D (Or: Writing idiomatic D code)

 +1

 I'd like to add, maybe put some focus on "Range" oriented 
 coding seeing as Phobos is full or ranges etc...

  And how it simplifies code because of it. Several times I've 
written a small range struct which handle managing blocks of 
memory (and lots of low level arithmetic); This removes the need 
for multiple extra variables handling location and low level 
counting when all you want to worry about is each item.

  Perhaps a talk on templates as well, when to use them, where to 
use them.

  Actually something I'd like some time is a video concentrating 
on a particular part of the library where they explain why they 
set it up the way they did (arguments, examples) as well as how 
to use some of the more complex use cases. I can do one involving 
my primes range (as an example).

  Hmmm a section also on when to use various key words (pure, 
 safe, nothrow, inout); Multiple times I've tried to add tags to 
better represent my functions only to have it break all over the 
place (because a nothrow calls something that's not a nothrow 
(but should/could be), 'to' is not pure, etc).

  Concentrating on the ranges more, once the transient front part 
gets settled (and if it's allowed) a part on when to use it (and 
how to declare it).

  Perhaps a part on how to properly use D without involving the GC.

  Hmmm so many more things I could throw in...

Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:

On 11/22/2012 03:13 AM, Era Scarecrow wrote:
   Perhaps a part on how to properly use D without involving the GC.

... perhaps a part on keeping memory use effectively under control _with_ the 
GC?  (Avoiding all those dangling references, etc...:-)

"Tavi Cacina" <octavian.cacina outlook.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 21 November 2012 at 18:42:55 UTC, Leandro Motta 
Barros wrote:
 TITLE: D Programming in D (Or: Writing idiomatic D code)

 ABSTRACT: Every language has its own sanctified idioms. 
 Beginners
 learning a new language tend to use the idioms of the languages 
 they
 already know in the new language. This is no different for 
 someone
 learning D, so we have people doing, say, "C++ programing in D" 
 or
 "Lua programming in D". This is not the best way to go. 
 Learning the D
 idioms is a very important step to move from "I can write D 
 programs"
 to "I know D". This talk presents a survey of the most important
 idioms commonly used by the D community. Hopefully, it will 
 help you
 to start doing "D programming in D".

good idea.
+1