DConf '23--The Neat Language: AKA What I've been up to the past three years--Mathis Beer

Mathis beer shows you what D would look like with native sumtypes, rich types, better lambdas, and macros.

The ODP slides are available here:
https://dconf.org/2023/slides/beer.odp

The Neat Language
https://github.com/Neat-Lang/neat

DConf '23 Homepage
https://dconf.org/2023/index.html

The D Programming Language Home
https://dlang.org/

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TIMECODES
00:00 Title and Introduction
02:17 What is Neat like?
06:00 Is Neat a replacement for D?
07:00 Things D should copy from Neat
07:18 List comprehensions
07:59 Compilation as a pure function
10:25 A compile server
13:21 Neat's type system
19:14 Packages vs. modules
21:53 Value lambdas
23:50 Don't do reference counting
25:21 Macros and quasiquoting
33:25 Language design advice
35:10 Comments from Walter
35:32 Q about multithreaded performance
37:43 Q about a macro example
38:03 Q: What is the runtime overhead of the sumtypes?
39:17 Q about quasiquoting