A Conversation with Robert Schadek on His Career as a D Programmer

In this D Community Conversation, Mike Parker and Robert Schadek discuss Robert's path from his first steps programming with C, through his computer science education, and on to his career as a D programmer.

Robert's DConf 2013 talk (his first public talk):
   • DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 3: Distributed ...  

Robert's DConf Online '24 talk:
https://www.youtube.com/live/8GV_TuYk...

The blog post I mentioned about a D project involving KAIST and Queensland University (KAIST was not mentioned in the post, but one of the authors was in Korea collaborating with KAIST on the project):
https://dlang.org/blog/2022/02/02/a-g...

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Weka home page:
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Weka Co-Founder & CEO Liran Zvibel's DConf 2018 talk, "Using D as the programming language of choice for large scale primary storage system":
   • Liran Zvibel: Using D as the programm...  

Interview with Liran Zvibel on how Weka made the world's fastest file system with D:
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/12/04/int...
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https://dlang.org/

The DConf home page:
https://dconf.org/

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TIMECODES:
00:00 Introduction
01:53 How Robert got started programming
04:47 Did he make hobby projects in the early days?
06:45 How did he know he wanted to be a programmer?
12:12 What he did after he got his Bachelor's degree
15:40 How he go started with D
21:43 On DConf 2013
26:33 On the benefits of DConf
27:55 His progression as a D contributor
31:09 On an opportunity to work in Korea
33:40 On the value of having other programmers to talk to
35:22 How he found work after getting his PhD
37:44 On being a programmer vs. another career
43:42 On how he started working with the D Language Foundation
45:36 How his involvement with D has evolved
46:29 On out-of-the-box ideas for D
52:18 The status of the Bugzilla to GitHub migration
56:37 On adding containers to D
01:01:09 Advice on contributing to D