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Dconf 2014 Day 2 Keynote: The Last Thing D Needs -- Scott Meyers
Scott Meyers' keynote at DConf 2014, drawing on 25 years of C++ experience to offer the D language community a plea about what it should avoid. It centers on the accumulated complexity and pitfalls of C++ as a cautionary tale.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters bring it up whenever C++ complexity or the pitfalls of language design come up, as a witty and authoritative warning.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- The D Language Foundation
- Topic
- programming language design
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 11
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Yes, and everyone should watch Scott Meyers's awesome presentation at a D conference with the title "The Last Thing D Needs". (tl,dr version: The last thing D needs is someone like him, really to be so insanely convoluted, as C++ is, as to need someone …
jejones3141 on Hacker News · 2021-07
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nordsieck on Hacker News · 2018-04
In Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?> C++ developers .. don't seem to be interested in actually improving the language In his talks at the 2014 and 2017 conferences for the D programming langue, Scott Meyers noted the difference between what individual C++ committee members say they value, and what the …
SloopJon on Hacker News · 2018-05
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