On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:39:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:19:09 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
Holy s**t, that is a lot! How did you manage to fit all this
in 337 pages?!
Each individual item tended to only be about 3 pages, some
shorter, a few longer (I had a fair chunk to say about ranges
and reflection, not so much to say about threads and phobos)
and in some cases I kinda ask the reader to take things on
faith.
Mostly, I explain the faith stuff on the following page, but in
the bare metal thing, like i said before, some of it is just
"that interacts with the hardware, trust me". So that chapter
was only about 15 pages.... a lot for two "recipes" ("hello
world" and "handling interrupts"), but certainly not a
comprehensive covering of the subject.
I gotta writing my dconf talk next though that will go a bit
more into it, but again, with a focus on druntime functions
more than on how the hardware actually works.
I assume it has standard PACKT format ("give it a go hero"
etc)? Bought it and waiting for a release :) Congratz!
yeah, it starts with a list of steps, then usually shows code
(not always a complete program but usually), then some talk
about how it works and covering details.
the code should also be available as a separate download for
each thing so you can run it more easily and play with it that
way.
Everything sounds great, really can't wait. Coming from C++ I am
really interested in resource management. I still can't find
myself in non-deterministic d-tor / GC world (and recent
discussion on removal of d-tors entirely isn't helping ;P).
