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New comment by MikeShah in "Elegant D"

MikeShah — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:18:03 +0000

Opening talk at the recent D Language Symposium. Details and slides at Dlangsymposium.com

Elegant D

MikeShah — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:18:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kYM7ue7pqc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47786621

Points: 2

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New comment by MikeShah in "Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language"

MikeShah — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:54:42 +0000

Indeed! Thanks for also linking my discussion with Wouter His early work on Cube engine and Amiga-E are still awesome to look at.

New comment by MikeShah in "2025 Njpls – Revisiting the D Language – My 2^x Programming Language[Ep. 133]"

MikeShah — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:59:46 +0000

This is a rerecording of a recent talk I gave at the New Jersey Programming Language Seminar on the D programming language. It's a brief tour of the D programming language, why I enjoy the language(i.e. my 'sales pitch'), and also why I think there's more to choosing a programming language than a single dimension (which we often do). In any case, I encourage folks to try as many programming languages and tools as you can, and see which ones you like and find which language may be your competitive advantage -- maybe it will be the D language!

2025 Njpls – Revisiting the D Language – My 2^x Programming Language[Ep. 133]

MikeShah — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:59:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJf0etigg7o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44450907

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by MikeShah in "Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference"

MikeShah — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 03:37:33 +0000

YouTube series has tutorials, and course videos are on my website. More slides and such will be posted on my website otherwise.

New comment by MikeShah in "Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference"

MikeShah — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 03:36:18 +0000

No worries at all! :)

New comment by MikeShah in "Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference"

MikeShah — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:55:49 +0000

We have also been using D for computer graphics and game programming as of this year! :D

New comment by MikeShah in "How Programming Languages Got Their Names"

MikeShah — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:35:18 +0000

D was originally the 'Digital Mars Compiler'.

Everyone around Walter Bright kept calling it D because it was a modern language with C-like syntax. Thus, D the next letter in the alphabet and eventually Walter gave in. :)

New comment by MikeShah in "D Programming Language"

MikeShah — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:36:24 +0000

Continuing to add to my playlist on the language: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvv0ScY6vfd9Fso-3cB4CGnSl...

New comment by MikeShah in "D Programming Language"

MikeShah — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:23:48 +0000

A few other folks (including myself) are or otherwise continue to teach D.

https://youtu.be/V2YwTIIMEeU?si=To2DBlzz30XAUptN

https://dlang.org/blog/2022/02/19/how-i-taught-the-d-program...

New comment by MikeShah in "Crafting Self-Evident Code with D"

MikeShah — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 05:54:01 +0000

Absolutely! Any game in C#, Java, or even C++ Unreal Engine games.

https://unrealcommunity.wiki/garbage-collection-36d1da

New comment by MikeShah in "Crafting Self-Evident Code with D"

MikeShah — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 19:04:21 +0000

It's worth noting many (A majority as I understand) AAA game studios end up writing their own STL. I'm willing to bet many industries where performance is the primary concern also write much of their core libraries from scratch.

D lets user opt-out of collector as needed which is quite nice. D has been used in AAA game development for what it's worth as well.

New comment by MikeShah in "Ask HN: Who is using the D language and likes/doesn't like it? Why?"

MikeShah — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 16:01:32 +0000

Here is my playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvv0ScY6vfd9Fso-3cB4CGnSl...

Some more upcoming videos will include some tools for D's ecosystem.

I can also recommend Ali's book here as a reference to the language: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/

New comment by MikeShah in "Ask HN: Who is using the D language and likes/doesn't like it? Why?"

MikeShah — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 14:15:18 +0000

I like it, use it, and teach it.

- It's both fast for prototyping and also scales well for large applications.

- Compiles very fast with DMD and supports many platforms with LDC and GDC.

- CTFE (compile-time function execution) is a big win.

- standard library has enough of the common things (json, sql, csv, curl, sockets, etc.) that I need for my domain. Other stuff I can usually find a package or C library to read in if needed.

- most of the defaults seem right to me in the language versus C++ (variable initialization, struct as value type by default, explicit casting, module system, thread-local data, etc.)

Ecosystem does need a boost but I think that's actively developing, so code-d plugin for VSCode is a good place for most to start (I prefer VIM). Ecosystem seems to be slowly and steadily growing otherwise.

I can post links to more video tutorials if useful (disclaimer: I made them :) ).

New comment by MikeShah in "Time Travel Debugging Introduction on Linux"

MikeShah — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:07:04 +0000

Hi Folks,

I wanted to share a video and recent article on getting started with time travel debugging using the freely available 'rr' tool on Linux (Full disclosure, I'm the author :) ).

Debugging is the number one skill (from my conversations) I hear from employers that they wish new software engineers had more experience with. Anyway, here is my small part to introduce one of many debugging technique to beginners.

Direct link to C++ and rr debugging: https://undo.io/resources/gdb-watchpoint/time-travel-debuggi...

Note, time travel debugging/reverse debugging has been around for quite some time! Check out what time travel tools your language has on the wiki if C++ isn't your default language :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_debugging

Time Travel Debugging Introduction on Linux

MikeShah — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:07:04 +0000

Article URL: https://undo.io/resources/gdb-watchpoint/time-travel-debugging-rr-debugger/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34000610

Points: 13

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