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Dconf 2014 Day 2 Keynote: The Last Thing D Needs -- Scott Meyers

The D Language Foundation · 19.4K views · 2017-11-28 · 54:55

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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.

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HN commenters bring it up whenever C++ complexity or the pitfalls of language design come up, as a witty and authoritative warning.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2018–2025

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Programming language designC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages
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jejones3141 · 2021-07 · Strong recommendation

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 like him.) Link to the video: [VIDEO]

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nordsieck · 2023-06 · Recommendation

I'll just leave this fantastic talk here: The Last Thing D Needs - Scott Meyers (2014) [VIDEO] The C++ type system really is quite... complicated.

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noselasd · 2022-11 · Recommendation

> You cannot say the same thing about Rust. At least not yet. My fear is it's _very_ easy to fall in to the same trap as C++ has, and become a big mess. Scott Meyers have a very nice talk here: [VIDEO] about all these traps and pifalls that we have to deal with in C++. That said, I'm starting a bit with rust and enjoy it so a lot, especially the tooling alone is worth it - and if I never have to write another line of C++, I would be very happy (ofc the real world argues I have a lot of C++ code that will need maintenance).

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