Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-14 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 4/14/2023 5:54 PM, zjh wrote:

Can you create a special post in the forum?
This way, it is safer and more convenient.



That is a good idea to do that as well. But I have no idea why would be safer?

Anyhow, the idea with Twitter is outreach to a larger audience. Newspapers all 
do it, why shouldn't we?


Some hashtags to follow:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/dlang
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImportC


Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-14 Thread zjh via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Friday, 14 April 2023 at 15:33:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I've had a twitter account for 15 years now (!) and haven't 
used it much for anything. But lately I've decided to use it to 
give regular updates on D things I've been working on.


You can follow me on:

https://twitter.com/WalterBright

I encourage other D users on twitter to do the same!



Can you create a special post in the forum?
This way, it is safer and more convenient.



Walter on Twitter

2023-04-14 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've had a twitter account for 15 years now (!) and haven't used it much for 
anything. But lately I've decided to use it to give regular updates on D things 
I've been working on.


You can follow me on:

https://twitter.com/WalterBright

I encourage other D users on twitter to do the same!


Re: D Language Foundation March 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2023-04-14 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Thursday, 13 April 2023 at 01:44:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

On 4/11/2023 7:35 PM, bachmeier wrote:

[...]


It's a seductive idea, and I've considered that (and variations 
on it) many times. We have done this, after a fashion, in 
having our own versions of the .h files in the form of the D 
translations in core.stdc.* import files.


[...]


I've now lost count of how many times changes in the Python 
headers break code using it. The only way to consume headers is 
to parse/translate/etc. them on the fly.