Re: Funding code-d

[Michael via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 13 July 2018 at 14:20:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
As promised in my tweet of June 30 (and to the handful of 
people who emailed me), the cloud of mystery surrounding the 
use of the money raised for code-d and its supporting tools has 
now been (partially) lifted!


In this post, I lay out the details of how the first $1000 will 
be paid out to project maintainer Jan Jurzitza, a.k.a 
Webfreak001, and explain what we hope to achieve with this 
ecosystem fundraising initiative going forward.


This time around, it all came together in the background of 
prepping for DConf with little forethought beyond activating an 
Open Collective goal and then working with Jan to determine the 
details. Lessons were learned. Later this year, you'll see the 
result when we announce the next of what we hope to be an 
ongoing series of funding targets.


In the meantime:

The blog
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/07/13/funding-code-d/

Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/8yka7b/funding_coded_the_d_blog/


I think this is a worthy cause for the money. I'm glad to see the 
D foundation looking more towards investing in these kinds of 
community projects, as they make up the D ecosystem that many 
opponents of D describe as lacking.

Re: d-apt update

[Michael 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.


Yeah this update seemed to break a couple of packages, but was 
fixed just fine.

Re: Release D v2.077.1

[Michael via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 13:52:00 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:

Glad to announce D v2.077.1.

http://dlang.org/download.html

This point release fixes a few issues over v2.077.1, see the 
changelog for more details.


http://dlang.org/changelog/v2.077.1.html

- -Martin


Thanks for all your work, it doesn't go unnoticed!

Re: I'm the new package maintainer for D on ArchLinux

[Michael via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 9 August 2017 at 20:42:48 UTC, Wild wrote:

Hi everyone,

The D packages for ArchLinux has been orphaned since Dicebot 
stepped down as the maintainer and no one else stepped up. So I 
decided to step up and apply to become a Trusted User, and I 
got accepted yesterday[1]. So from now on I will be the one who 
maintains all the D packages (in the [community] repo), and it 
will be my job to fix them if they break.


[...]


You are very much appreciated! Thanks for all your work!

Re: Calling D from Ruby for GPU computing

[Michael via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 29 July 2017 at 06:54:47 UTC, Prasun Anand wrote:

Hi,

I wrote a Linear Mixed Model tool for Genome Wide Association 
Studies(GWAS) called
[faster_lmm_d](https://github.com/prasunanand/faster_lmm_d). It 
is built on LDC
and is faster than its Python alternative. Also, its the only 
GWAS tool with a GPU

backend.

I am interested in porting ` faster_lmm_d` to Ruby. Though, it 
is still a work in progress, I have written a blog about my 
findings.


Blog: 
http://www.prasunanand.com/gpu-computing/2017/07/25/gsoc17-calling-d-from-ruby-for-gpu-computing.html


I would love to hear your feedback.

Regards,
Prasun

[Previously posted on LDC thread: 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/rzrawenyssbiidsgt...@forum.dlang.org]


I don't know much about your work but it sounds like an 
interesting application for D. How easy was it interfacing with 
cuda? Was it just cuda you targeted or would it also work with 
OpenCL? What made you choose D over going straight to C to work 
directly with cuda?

Re: D books for $5

[Michael via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 16 December 2016 at 05:43:02 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:

Hi all,

Packt Publishing offers eBooks for $5 for a limited time. If 
your collection of D eBooks is still incomplete then this is a 
great chance for you. :-)


D Cookbook by Adam D. Ruppe 
(https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/d-cookbook)
Learning D by Michael Parker 
(https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/learning-d)
D Web Development by myself 
(https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/d-web-development)


Regards,
Kai


Any chance the print books are going on sale? I buy too many 
books as a student but would love to learn web dev in D.

Re: Visual D 0.45 released - better VS2017 integration

[Michael via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 07:04:55 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

Hi,

there is a new version 0.45 of Visual D available at 
http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html


Most changes are bug fixes and incremental improvements, maybe 
standing out:


* improved VS 2017 integration
* task list support
* dparser update to recent language additions

See 
http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html 
for the full version history.


Visual D is a Visual Studio extension that adds D language 
support to VS2008-2017. It is written in D, its source code can 
be found on github: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald, pull 
requests welcome.


Rainer


Good work! You guys integrating D support into editors are 
awesome and we appreciate the work you do.

Re: daffodil, a D image processing library

[Michael via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 1 July 2016 at 11:09:49 UTC, Relja Ljubobratovic wrote:
On Thursday, 30 June 2016 at 21:35:37 UTC, Benjamin Schaaf 
wrote:

[...]


Hi there. Took a quick look at the source and it seems really 
nice! I like your idea of extensibility for color conversion. 
Also, image I/O seems to be set up quite nicely for a starting 
point. Although I have to comment that bit depth shouldn't be a 
template argument, in my opinion. When loading images, bit 
depth should be determined in the runtime, depending on the 
image you'd be loading at the moment. Or am I wrong? - do you 
have some other way of handing this case?


Also wanted to let you know I've been working on a similar 
library for some time now [1].
Hope we could merge some modules and learn from each other, and 
not have multiple different implementations of the same stuff. 
Please let me know if your interested.


[1] https://github.com/ljubobratovicrelja/dcv


This is how responses should be, so thanks for adding to the 
conversation, unlike the initial commenter.


I do think, as there has been multiple proposed libraries for 
audio/CV/UI models, that some collaboration and merging of the 
more similar modules would benefit greatly from the combined 
effort and increased output, as getting these kinds of libraries 
off the ground seems to be quite slow at first. I'd love to start 
using some CV libraries in D for video processing.

Re: Release D 2.071.1

[Michael via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 27 June 2016 at 23:26:25 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Monday, 27 June 2016 at 23:15:06 UTC, Robert burner Schadek 
wrote:

Awesome, releases are becoming more and more boring. I like it!


I wouldn't call 1.0 * -1.0 == 1.0 boring!


Yeah I was thinking this haha.

Re: Beta D 2.071.1-b1

[Michael via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 20:59:41 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:

On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 04:40:21 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:

First beta for the 2.071.1 point release.
A few issues remain to be fixed before the next beta.

http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta 
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.1.html


Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org

-Martin


This should probably be stalled until 
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/5781 is pulled.


Agreed. A silent regression of this kind is pretty serious, and I 
think it needs to make it into the stable release as soon as 
possible.

Re: Computer Vision Library in D

[Michael via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 11:50:55 UTC, Edwin van Leeuwen 
wrote:

On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 11:32:25 UTC, Michael wrote:
And I would also like to see some more scientific libraries 
make it into D. Though I understand that including it in the 
standard library can cause issues, it would be nice to at 
least get some Linear Algebra libraries in experimental or 
over with the rest of the science libraries.


As I understand it that is part of the goal of mir:
https://code.dlang.org/packages/mir

Not sure if you were aware, but there is also a group with the 
aim to promote scientific dlang work:

https://gitter.im/DlangScience/public


I've seen the mir project and it looks promising. I'm also aware 
of Dlang science and I hope that it gains some support.

Re: Computer Vision Library in D

[Michael via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 18:47:46 UTC, Relja Ljubobratovic 
wrote:

Nice point about the Fortran, and also about the C++. :)

I'd have to say I'm convinced - if there's a vote about such 
module joining Phobos, count me in! :)


But really, when you look at it - the ndslice has made it to 
the Phobos, now it's probably natural to have some more 
extensive use of it in the standard library. Linear algebra 
stuff could be build nicely on top of the ndslice, you agree?


Perhaps it's a bit late to add to the original conversation, but 
I believe:

https://github.com/DerelictOrg
would be the ideal place to host C bindings to OpenCV if that was 
actually the plan. I didn't realise, as somebody suggested, that 
they were planning to remove their own C bindings for OpenCV 
which is pretty sad.


And I would also like to see some more scientific libraries make 
it into D. Though I understand that including it in the standard 
library can cause issues, it would be nice to at least get some 
Linear Algebra libraries in experimental or over with the rest of 
the science libraries.

Visual Studio Community and .NET Open Source

[Michael via Digitalmars-d-announce]

It's happening.

Studio Pro for free ;)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/11/12/visual-studio-2015-preview-visual-studio-community-2013-visual-studio-2013-update-4-and-more.aspx

.NET Open Source
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-is-open-source.aspx

.NET have a good and open sourced GC, so maybe it's possible to 
get something useful from it?