Tango conference 2008 speakers

Not so long ago Conference Speakers List was published on the NG. Lets take a closer look at the announcment:

A preliminary list of most of the entries in the program at the Tango
Conference 2008 in Torun, Poland, is now ready. Titles for most of the
talks are not ready yet though, and so the below should not be considered a
definite guide. More posts on the program are also due to be confirmed
later, along with the final time table.

- Tomasz Stachowiak - DDL

DDL is one of those projects in D that proved me how D is amazing. This utility for loading "D Dynamic Libraires" makes DLL or SO to hide in the shadows in shame. It was started by Pragma(Eric Anderton), but now also h3r3tic (Tomasz Stachowiak) added some patches to the project. He will tell all about this project on the conference. Personally I can add, as a colegue of Tom who witnessed many of his speeches, that his lecture will surely be interesting and will explain the topic greatly.

- Frank Benoit - DWT Features
Everyone who at least touched nasty java world knows SWT. It is very mature and quite relable gui library which is also multiplatform. Frank Benoit (aka keinfarbton) once worked on project called tioport which aim was to create tool for converting java code to D. Altought the project is stalled for now, it managed to convert SWT to D. That's how DWT began to exist. Support for it was also added to Entice GUI Designer making it as easy to use as in java with use of eclipse or netbeans. You will find out all about DWT from it's author himself - surelly worth hearing.

 - Mikola Lysenko - Get some Fibers in your diet
Mikola Lysenko is surely man of many talents. We could see his amazing work on gamedev. He also has added to Tango extremely cool feature - Fibers. What they are and, what's most important, why/when/how to use them will be subject of this exciting talk. 
- Rick Richardson
Top Secret for now.
- Tomas Lindquist / Christian Kamm - LLVMDC
Compilers are one of the most important issues of D nowdays. Althought we have two of them, each has it's problems: DMD is well supported by D author himself, its code optimisation (done by dmc) is poor in compare to, for example, gcc. GDC (which is using gcc as a backend) is badly supported (at least in my opinion). Many (including) me are looking forward to LLVMDC which could solve those problems. What is the progress of this project and why are so many waiting for it - you can find answers to this quesitons and many more on this lecture
 - Jarrett Billingsley - MiniD
There are many scripting languages: lua, squirrel, io, python ... The one you will hear about during this talk is a golden middle between D and a scripting language. Looks really promissing as much for the game development issues as for other aplicaitons.
 - Dr Rafał Bocian - On teaching D
As you surely remember I wrote about the fact, that D is being taught on my university. Over 150 students, about 500 pass projects. How this all happened? How students are responding to D? What should one know before starting to teach D? Who to ask if not the first man in the world who was officially holding course of D on a university.
 - Kris Bell - Lightweight Coding
Last year on D conference Seattle 2007 Kris Bell was talking how to use slicing to improve application performance. This year he will tell what lightweight coding means and how to use it in your applications.
- Team0xf - Game development panel
- Compiler/runtime workshop
- Keynote

I believe I don't need to explain those.

As I tried to show all of those talks are seriously interesting but also covers wide set of topics, so everyone should be able to satisfy his main interests and expand horizons . More info about the Conference coming soon.