DConf `23 -- Ask us Anything!
This year, it wasn't only Walter and Átila in the hotseat! They were joined on stage by Mathias Lang, one of the DLF team members in charge of our high-level goal to enhance the D ecosystem; Dennis Korpel, one of our Pull Request and Issue Managers; Mike Parker, one of the DLF team members in charge of our high-level goal to strengthen the D community; and Saeed Sabeti, who joined us to take questions about Ucora's organizational redevelopment program.
DConf '23 Homepage
https://dconf.org/2023/index.html
The D Programming Language Home
https://dlang.org/
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TIMCODES:
00:00 Introduction
02:12 What is should be the top focus of D over the next couple of years?
04:21 When will ImportC be generally available?
06:42 What would Dennis improve first if he were BDFL?
08:03 What is Walter's plan for generating DI files with the export attribute?
09:09 Is there any potential for @safe by default?
10:00 Does Walter hope C compiler vendors might add arrays to C?
12:12 What are the future implications of supporting legacy code?
14:12 What's hindering exponential ecosystem growth?
16:56 How much more refactoring does DMD need to be packagized?
17:36 What are the next steps after completing the IVY program?
25:59 Has Saeed seen any bureaucracy we can remove?
28:43 Comments on achieving our goals with editions
31:10 What happed with std v2?
31:53 What feature would we get rid of but would be bad to do so?
38:05 Did completing the IVY workshops make us happier working on D?
39:46 Any plans to test all dub projects instead of the current subset?
40:22 Could we have a linter to help with future changes?
40:54 When will we know we're ready to open the DIP queue again?
41:44 Do we all need to use IVY for it to work?
44:04 Is language balkanization a problem and how do we resolve it?
47:36 Comments about tool breakage from language changes.
51:53 Where do we want to see the project evolve to in five years?
53:33 The last question...