Dynamic Types in D

Abstract:  I'll talk primarily about my jsvar.d, and some about its (optional) companion, script.d, showing what they can do and how I was able to do it.

• What is a dynamic type?
• What good is it?
• What does Phobos offer?
• How can we do better? Operator overloading, opDispatch, `ref` return.
• How do we interact with native objects? Reflection!
• What about `eval()`? Enter `script.d`.
• What still sucks (and how to handle it)? `@property`, `delegate` in `struct` pitfalls.
• What cool stuff have you done with it? Show my app.

Remainder of time: Q&A about cool stuff. I can go on about a lot of topics for a long time - my other big D project right now is a game without C libraries (except the OS itself). Of course, my older projects include the web stuff and I can talk about that too. But really, I want the Q&A to be audience led and ideally take up a solid 15 minutes so we can get into more things.

Speaker Bio: Adam D. Ruppe is a master programmer and serious contender - if not winner - for world champion of D for seven consecutive years and counting. He is among the most prolific D programmers on the planet, having written all manner of code in it from bare metal programs to professional web projects, and is also the author of the critically praised and community renowned "D Cookbook".

With expert level knowledge in several programming languages, techniques, and domains coupled with versatile practicality and humble generosity, Adam rarely finds a problem he cannot solve and is a common sight in the D community, always willing—and able—to help on nearly any user question.

Recent D projects:
• A JSON inspector utilizing a pure-D async HTTP library, pure D script interpreter and pure D terminal library: https://github.com/adamdruppe/inspector
• A simple volume control, showing OS interaction and terminal UI: https://github.com/adamdruppe/volume-control
• A cross-platform terminal emulator in pure D, using a D windowing library: https://github.com/adamdruppe/terminal-emulator
• Windows COM helpers: https://github.com/adamdruppe/com
• And, of course, the always growing collection of useful modules, including jsvar.d, script.d, dom.d, and much more: https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd