Re: GSoC 2018 - Your project ideas

[Jeremy DeHaan via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 8 December 2017 at 00:28:11 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
The 2016 student started playing around with a type-based 
pooling collector.


I actually ran with this idea and wrote a garbage collector from 
scratch for an independent study at my university. I haven't made 
much noise about it since I didn't have time to get it to pass 
all tests, but it had performance about on par with the current 
GC and it has a precise heap like in the open PR's.


I'm going to continue working on it in the spring, so who knows 
what'll happen? I would submit a proposal to continue working on 
it during the summer, but I don't think I can participate in 
another GSoC (I graduate as the summer starts).

Re: D User Survey

[user1234 via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 8 December 2017 at 22:22:14 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:

On 12/08/2017 05:53 AM, Chris wrote:


Yep. D seems to be quite popular in Europe. I wonder why that 
is, given that it originated in the USA and people in the 
States are more open to new technologies. What were the 
technical and social factors at work here? Maybe D wasn't 
fancy enough to be taken seriously in the USA and maybe people 
from outside the USA (not only in Europe) looked at it and 
said "Hold on, that's something interesting...and we can 
contribute to it." D certainly struck a chord with many 
programmers around the globe, but what is it exactly? (Please 
no jokes about D major or D minor chords now ;)


Speaking as a US citizen, it's long been my observation that 
americans (and I only mean collectively, of course, it's 
difficult to generalize down to individuals since that varies 
greatly) tend to be far more conservative than one would assume 
them to be.


Just as one example: The various genres of electronic music. 
Always succeeded far better in europe than they ever did the 
US. Americans would hear it and just bitch about "soulless", 
"doesn't require musical talent" and other such [nonsence]. But 
turn on (for example) BBC's Top Gear and they had recognizable 
Prodigy, Crystal Method, etc all over the place. And heck, most 
of Fluke's catalog isn't even available in the US. That sort of 
stuff just doesn't sell very well over here. Americans like 
their "three main acoustic cords" and steady simple 4/4 beats.


Even "silicon vally" isn't quite so much "open to new 
technology" as it is driven primarily by buzz and popularity.


And then there's the last presidential election, which, and I 
don't mean this to be snarky, just honest observation: it 
clearly demonstrated there's far more white 
tra...*cough*...umm..."ultra-conservatives" here than anyone 
ever thought.


From what I hear, we're one of the few remaining industrialized 
nations that has capital punishment. Whether that's good/bad is 
completely beside the point here, the point being: Either way, 
it's undeniably conservative.


Despite perhaps tipping my hand a bit, I really don't mean any 
of that as ranting at all, just illustrating that it DOES make 
sense that europe would be more open to D than the US:


Because the US *is* paradoxically much more conservative than 
one would expect from a relatively young country that produces 
as much software and electronics as it does. Whether that 
conservativeness is good/bad/other is open to opinion, but 
either way, it is what it is, and I think D's higher rate of 
success elsewhere can be traced to that.


There are interesting stuff in your comment but i think we're 
going off-topic.
Let's no go too far, the point, initially, is that survey is not 
good.

In no way it should be used to split ourselves.

Re: d-apt update

[Jordi Sayol via Digitalmars-d-announce]

El 09/12/17 a les 14:32, jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce ha escrit:
> I consider rdmd to be part of the compiler in a way that I don't consider the 
> other dmd-tools...

You're right. I'll fix on next dmd release.

Jordi

Re: d-apt update

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 8 December 2017 at 15:53:24 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote:

d-apt  release dmd v2.077.1

In this release, d-apt splits "dmd-bin" deb package into 
"dmd-compiler" (the command line compiler) and "dmd-tools" 
(includes: dumpobj, obj2asm, rdmd, ddemangle and dustmite).


Best regards,
Jordi.


I consider rdmd to be part of the compiler in a way that I don't 
consider the other dmd-tools...

Re: D User Survey

[wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 14:31:01 UTC, Chris wrote:
 I didn't know Ireland was so
unknown, unless, of course, I'm supposed to choose "Great 
Britain".


I also hated myself for clicking Great Britain :-)