On July 29, 2010, Andrei Alexandrescu gave a Google Tech Talk titled, “Three Cool Things About D.” The video is now available. I haven’t watched it yet, so I have no feedback or comments to give. Let me know what you think.
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I’m not sure why Andrei didn’t tell them about static and renamed imports when they were getting bothered about symbol conflicts from imports.
But I think they have a good point about suddenly failing to compile not being a great result. If you’re the original programmer you probably know that std.file.copy() was what was meant. But some poor maintenance programmer probably will not know which copy() was meant without a lot of effort. So the default of public imports is a poor choice. Of course this has been argued to no end on the D newsgroups.
I missed the opportunity of mentioning static and renamed imports. It’s simply my being nervous.
The last question was a good one too — “What is the largest application written in D?” There should be a page on digitalmars.com listing cool apps people have written with address where people can send more descriptions and screenshots. “The Qt Bindings” is not such an inspiring answer. That question definitely deserved a book.
That only showed AA’s complete lack of touch with the community.
And that can be a great comment to his book too 
We use D heavily in productive environments since 1,5 years….not every application has yet made it to the public