Re: My ACCU 2016 keynote video available online
On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 13:46:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Uses D for examples, showcases Design by Introspection, and rediscovers a fast partition routine. It was quite well received. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxnotgLql0k Andrei Funny, useful, advertises the best parts of D very well.
Re: Strange Loop Conference Call for Presentations
On Wednesday, 13 April 2016 at 15:00:53 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Wednesday, 13 April 2016 at 14:33:01 UTC, Andrei That conference had a strange incident last year where they kicked a guy out for his political views, that had nothing to do with his technical talk: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/06/curtis_yarvin_booted_from_strange_loop_it_s_a_big_big_problem.html I personally wouldn't attend any conference that applied such strange principles. Speaking and unintrusively poking fun at the self-righteousness (by a variable name for example) would also be effective.
Re: Four new DConf 2015 videos
On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 13:56:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 7/8/15 6:29 AM, ZombineDev wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu -- Keynote: Generic Programming Must Go dconf link: http://dconf.org/2015/talks/alexandrescu.html video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCrVYYlFTrA Found my talk on reddit already: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3cjr4v/generic_programming_must_go/ Andrei Looks like you've destroyed C++ concepts with this talk.
Re: DConf 2014 publishes schedule, opens registration
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 00:09:50 UTC, Alessandro Stamatto wrote: Damn! No spoilers about the mysterious Scott Meyers talk, what is the last thing D needs?!?!?! Curious! 8-) ISO Standards committee possibly.
Re: dmd 2.064.2
On Wednesday, 6 November 2013 at 20:46:23 UTC, Luís Marques wrote: Is it possible to build something like wrap, so that it can be given a wrapping class instead of a wrapping interface? I was trying to build something very similar to wrap, and at first glance it seems like wrap might suit me, except that I wanted to wrap the wolf in the class Sheeps clothes, not in an ISheep. (typecons.d(2864): Error: class std.typecons.wrap!(B).wrap!(A).Impl base type must be interface, not main.B) classes have implementations and state you need to initialize. It's possible to implement that in wrap but more problematic.
Re: Article: D Exceptions and C Callbacks
On Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 15:05:22 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Shows how I like to deal with throwing exceptions from C callbacks in D. Target audience is beginner-level. Uses GLFW to demonstrate. http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/general-programming/d-exceptions-and-c-callbacks-r3323 Good article, thanks. There's one thing though. You say than relying on coder's discipline is error prone and I totally agree with that. But your sollution requires coder to remember to wrap those callbacks in try-catches. Maybe modifying glfwSetWindowCloseCallback and similar functions to only accept nothrow functions is a good idea?
Re: My first email to Walter, ever
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 12:27:02 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 03:03:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Terrible. If you have conditionals, iteration, functions, and
objects
in D's straight programming support, you should have
conditionals,
iteration, functions, and objects in D's metalanguage.
:-(
template allSatisfy(alias F, T...)
{
static if (T.length == 0)
{
enum allSatisfy = true;
}
else static if (T.length == 1)
{
enum allSatisfy = F!(T[0]);
}
else
{
enum allSatisfy =
allSatisfy!(F, T[ 0 .. $/2])
allSatisfy!(F, T[$/2 .. $ ]);
}
}
Still looks like half-assed functional programming to me.
Where's the iteration? Why can't I write this?
template allSatisfy(alias F, T...) {
foreach(t; T)
if (!F!(t))
return false;
return true;
}
(Those are rhetorical questions btw, before anyone links me to
a D tutorial).
We're almost there with CTFE, but CTFE can only run functions
that could run at runtime. In a crazy world where types were
first class objects, stuff like this would be feasible. Or
perhaps we just need a compile-time metalanguage that allows
things like this to be run with CTFE?
Static foreach would help, at least in my case:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/ebvrirxozwllqjbff...@forum.dlang.org
Sadly, there are more important issues (shared libs, 83 PRs in
dmd) so this will probably have to wait for better times.
Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation
On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 04:34:02 UTC, QAston wrote: This may be completely ridiculous - I'm a newcomer - please destroy me gently. So, the idea is to make dlang.org a fundation. Here are some possible benefits of doing this: -You get more people to own the language and therefore seriously care about it's future development. --Two people are not enough. ---What if someone gets hit by a bus? ---Delegate some administrative tasks to other people, so you can focus on improving things --Programmers are not all what's needed(the ability to write xml parser doesn't make you a good webdev) ---Get a real webdesigner involved ---Someone to do proffessional PR and advertising ---An admin to maintain all these things -You could start taking donations and hire some people to work on D. --Like for example, you could pay for a proffessional enterprise'y webdesign for dlang.org. --Companies want to donate to support tools they're using --Funding for DSoC -You'd get more interest from companies --Managers run companies, not programmers, github is not a collaboration for managers --Increase in trust, things are formal and transparent, not done behind the scenes --They may want to put a part-time developer to work on a compiler for example ---Much easier with a formal institution, where the dev would actually have something to say and can get things done There are obviously some issues, like the design by comitee problem and possibly others. Still, python, perl, haskell and others have foundations. That's probably why those are much better @ operational proffessionalism. Note: I don't want to do a cargo-cult here - simple registering doesn't do magic, yet it's a valid consideration i think, especially if it may help solving some problems pointed out by Andrei.
An idea - make dlang.org a fundation
This may be completely ridiculous - I'm a newcomer - please destroy me gently. So, the idea is to make dlang.org a fundation. Here are some possible benefits of doing this: -You get more people to own the language and therefore seriously care about it's future development. --Two people are not enough. ---What if someone gets hit by a bus? ---Delegate some administrative tasks to other people, so you can focus on improving things --Programmers are not all what's needed(the ability to write xml parser doesn't make you a good webdev) ---Get a real webdesigner involved ---Someone to do proffessional PR and advertising ---An admin to maintain all these things -You could start taking donations and hire some people to work on D. --Like for example, you could pay for a proffessional enterprise'y webdesign for dlang.org. --Companies want to donate to support tools they're using --Funding for DSoC -You'd get more interest from companies --Managers run companies, not programmers, github is not a collaboration for managers --Increase in trust, things are formal and transparent, not done behind the scenes --They may want to put a part-time developer to work on a compiler for example ---Much easier with a formal institution, where the dev would actually have something to say and can get things done There are obviously some issues, like the design by comitee problem and possibly others. Still, python, perl, haskell and others have foundations. That's probably why those are much better @ operational proffessionalism.
DMocks-revived - a mocking framework for the D programming language
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V98Z11V7kEY has inspired me to revive DMocks project. So far I only made it work with latest dmd and made some cleanups. I think that's enough for anyone to try out the ideas from the vid, you have no excuse now not to do it:P. I'm waiting for opinions, since it's my first project like this. So, as Andrei would say: Destroy!
Re: DMocks-revived - a mocking framework for the D programming language
On Saturday, 1 June 2013 at 10:46:26 UTC, QAston wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V98Z11V7kEY has inspired me to revive DMocks project. So far I only made it work with latest dmd and made some cleanups. I think that's enough for anyone to try out the ideas from the vid, you have no excuse now not to do it:P. I'm waiting for opinions, since it's my first project like this. So, as Andrei would say: Destroy! I forgot the link: https://github.com/QAston/DMocks-revived
Re: What happened to next DConf 2013 talk: Shared libraries in D by Martin Nowak?
I'd understand postponing a Game of trones episode, but this?! J/K great conference, take your time with uploading.
