Re: Release D 2.079.0
On Monday, 5 March 2018 at 23:40:35 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: I'd have a snowball's chance in hell convincing anyone at a "regular" company of adopting D if anyone there even imagined any of the above could happen. We have to do better than this. Atila I don't think this is unusual even outside of D. At least Microsoft seems to be willing to break your build if it moves things forward. For example, there are projects that worked fine on MSVC 15.4 (VS2017), but broke if you installed the update to 15.5 (or auto-updated in Visual Studio). You can't test everything. A lot of the "regular" companies, that desire high stability, typically use very old compilers and just workaround the bugs they know. For a D example, I think Sociomantic was using D1 for a long time just because it was stable for them. And if you need stability, why would you update the compiler without local testing and reserving time to fix any issues?
Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages
On Sunday, 14 May 2017 at 14:07:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6777 It turned out to be unexpectedly easy to implement. Nice. But color highlighting should always be configurable (otherwise it's half done), because there are a lot of people who like colors, but can't distinguish between certain color combinations, because of a color disability. Or they might have poor displays or viewing conditions etc. I guess this should be simple to add, just output the colors into an .ini file and read them back if the file exists.
Re: Independent Study at my university using D
On Monday, 6 March 2017 at 02:25:41 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: The precise GC is going to continue to hang until it can be tweaked to be as fast or faster than the conservative GC we have now. In which cases? Shouldn't this be pulled and put behind a switch? I thought D's GC was supposed to be pluggable. This way people could actually try to use it easily and provide valuable real-world feedback and use cases. With some luck we could even get someone to contribute/improve the GC (at least for their use cases). It doesn't have to be the default. It doesn't have to be perfect to be released as experimental. I would probably try it if I could enable it with a simple compiler/application switch, but I'm not going to pull and build it from the source. Sounds to me like current situation actively blocks people from contributing instead of encouraging them.
Re: Vision document for H1 2017
On Wednesday, 4 January 2017 at 21:07:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 08:45:09PM +, Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] I claim dips on templates. (as in the colloquial english for asserting rights/ownership ) [...] FYI, it's spelt "dibs" (with a 'b'). ;-) T Actually, I think it's spelt "DIPs" (with capitalization) in dland ;) -- Just a random thought
