Teaching Software Engineering in DLang [pdf]

https://dconf.org/2023/slides/shah_and_students.pdf

by teleforce • 3 years ago

82 5 3 years ago

Thought that said "Da Nang" at first, and thought it was making an Apocalypse Now reference regarding Software Engineering.

"When I'm coding, I want to stop, when I stop, all I can think about is coding".

"When I went home, I just stared at the wall thinking of code, I didn't say anything until I said yes to a divorce".

nahimn• 3 years ago

This made me LOL... you've brightened my day.

vaylian• 3 years ago

Is D better than C++ for many things, including teaching? Definitely. It is a nice language that produces fast programs and is nice to read. It's also very good as a scripting language that can be compiled on demand with rdmd.

But I have to admit that I have been spoiled by Rust. D still blows Rust out of the water when you just want to write a "script" do to some small standalone task very efficiently (with rdmd), but for writing more complex programs Rust's type system feels much nicer.

Alifatisk• 3 years ago

D is a interesting language, its in the middle between a low-level language and a high-level language. You can quickly script with it but you can also produce complex and fast applications.

Its in a weird spot but its faschinating worth exploring it.

It's a flexible language, if you're coming from C / C++, you might like the -BetterC flag.

winter_blue• 3 years ago

Does D still have any potential, considering that Rust, Zig, and Vale have occupied a lot of the mindspace for modern systems programming languages?

Teaching Software Engineering in DLang [pdf]

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