On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 16:33:38 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 15:58:38 UTC, Mengu wrote:
On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 01:41:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKcOkWzj0_s
a little old but still relevant. talks about importance of
brevity and strong types for readability (also avoiding
boilerplate). two of the partners there committed to read
every line of code (originally because they were terrified).
very hard to code review boilerplate carefully because it is
just too dull!
(can't pay people enough!)
[...]
there's also andy smith's talk [0] at dconf 2015 on adapting
D, titled "hedge fund development case study."
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KBhb0iWsWQ
Thanks! Funnily enough I rewatched the Jane Street talk
because of a suggestion made by John Colvin when I was talking
to Andy and him recently. It's a good talk by Andy, and I hope
to build on this with him at Codemesh next month.
The way languages actually get adopted is different from how
people who are sitting in eg the kind of enterprise environment
where they are never going to be early adopters imagine. Hence
one is much better off focusing efforts on those already
receptive (and who are looking for a solution to their pain)
than trying to convert those who are happy with what they have
or uninterested (possibly rationally so) in exploring new
things.
Being able to understand the codebase is underrated I think.
i watched this talk by yaron last year when i was looking at
alternatives for sml. i was taking the programming languages
course on coursera by dan grossman. ocaml looked like it tooked
off at the beginning of 2000s but then due to many problems it
failed to be a mainstream language.
imho, D will never take off like go or rust because people who
adopted these languages are mostly python and ruby developers. D
has an incredibly creative and helpful community yet our
community is not as enthusiastic as go's and rust's community.
phobos is extremely a great library yet not very welcoming and
feels overly complicated. we should reduce the amount of WTFs
when reading the phobos source and docs.
