A Conversation with Mathias Lang on His Career as a D Programmer
In this D Community Conversation, Mike Parker and Mathias Lang discuss Mathias's decade as a D programmer across three different companies, his path to the core team, how he became the maintainer of dub, and more.
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TIMECODES:
00:00 Introduction
02:05 How Mathias got started with programming
05:52 Did he gravitate to any particular language while learning?
06:50 How easy it was to pick up D
07:47 Did he have any hobby projects outside of school?
09:25 Why he was drawn to coding the backend on a game project
10:32 What it was like interning in China
15:54 What he did with D once he picked it up
20:12 Going to DConf 2014
21:13 How he started working at Sociomantic
22:33 What was Sociomantic and what did he do there?
25:34 How Mathias Sociomantic transitioned from D1 to D2
28:49 Moving from Sociomantic in Berlin to a new job in Korea
37:05 How he joined the core team
40:49 How he became the dub maintainer
43:42 His recent focus with dub
45:48 What about multi-language support for dub?
47:17 The state of D's C++ interop these days
49:30 Thoughts on the Symmetry Autumn of Code
53:39 Changes the DLF has discussed that he's looking forward to
56:34 His wish list (things we haven't discussed)
59:25 Advice for potential contributors
01:01:33 Is he submitting a DConf talk?