It was a blast, just like last year was. It really is gratifying to spend 3 days discussing one’s favourite programming language with several people who really know their craft. Of course, attending the presentations and being able to ask questions live isn’t a bad deal either.
I think the highlight for me was Andrei Alexandrescu’s provocatively titled “Generic Programming Must Go”, in which he describes a new way of designing code based on compile-time reflection. He apparently came up with it while designing the new allocators for the D standard library, and I highly recommend watching it (and the other videos!) when they’re online.
I’m actually getting to write D code back at work as well, so that’s always good. In my spare time I’m furiously working on a meta build system, which will definitely feature in a future blog post.
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