Re: Is D programming friendly for beginners?
On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 14:52:32 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: ... I really think D would be a wonderful first language. Fast feedback, no need to manage memory, and easy to use built-in data structures would make for a nice intro course. If you say that D would be a good language to learn in lieu C++/Rust I'd agree, but as a First Language neither one would be my choice. Most here already program and know things, but as a first language forget, at least where and when I did college (Already knowing how to program), most people were lost with all the concepts of C++ for example. Bitwise shifts like << >> and the same operators being used in cin/cout may be OK for most people already in programming and using shell, but for those learning was a hell. Matheus.
Re: Upcoming talk at FOSDEM 2024 - The D Programming Language for Modern Open Source Development
On Saturday, 27 January 2024 at 14:47:51 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: ... This is the link: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2092-the-d-programming-language-for-modern-open-source-development/ ... Thanks, Matheus.
Re: Upcoming talk at FOSDEM 2024 - The D Programming Language for Modern Open Source Development
On Sunday, 14 January 2024 at 23:16:40 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: Hi D Community, My talk on how I'm using the D programming language and why I think it is an excellent language choice for open source projects will be featured at FOSDEM 2024 at the start of February 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. Look out for the official talk schedule(in the Main Track) here: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/events/ If folks have a particular open source project they'd like me to highlight, please feel free to share here -- I'll do my best to figure out how to link a few projects in the presentation. I'll also be digging through previous announcements, discord, etc. where appropriate to otherwise link some projects to show off D during the presentation. (The talk will otherwise provide an introduction to the D language -- it should be fun!) Cheers, Mike Hi Mike are you sure the link is right, or you're on that list? - I tried "D Programming", your name (And only Surname) but I couldn't find anything. Matheus.
Re: Youtube downloader
On Monday, 1 January 2024 at 20:45:09 UTC, Azi Hassan wrote: I've been working on this for a few months now and I figured I'd share it here. It's a youtube downloader that is inspired by youtube-dl. It's still under development, but I think the core functionality is stable enough for me to share it with the community. Github link: https://github.com/azihassan/youtube-d/ Hi there, First of all Happy New Year! Regarding your post, very nice and I'll take a look after festivities. But I'm curious, since you shared this in August 14 how is it going so far against google's tricks to stop external downloads? Did you have to write or change the calls too much to bypass some restrictions? Thanks, Matheus.
Re: DLF September 2023 Planning Update
On Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 13:25:43 UTC, Andrey Zherikov wrote: On Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 08:18:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: * We should have a tool that automates as much as possible the migration of modules to new editions * DMD-as-a-library is a critical component for that tool and other tools in the ecosystem. We need to put a priority on working out all the implementation issues Razvan has raised. IMHO having a general purpose migration tool is a big win. For example, I, as a library owner, want to help users to migrate their code from one library version to another and making this code evolution automatic would be ideal. I know this is kind of a different subject, but one thing that I'd like to understand is this situation of evolution. We usually see people complaining about the language evolution vs breaking code. I wonder how hard would be to "fix" the old code with a tool during the compile time. For example I see this with VSCode Editor when opening on old code and it shows some suggestions to fix the code with, of course it's not during the compile time but it's parsed somehow through the IDE (I guess!?). Well I barely see this in some languages, and I always wondered why? I mean why a source couldn't be parsed and fixed (With the user approval) in one go. Matheus.
Re: DLF September 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary
On Monday, 13 November 2023 at 04:46:44 UTC, matheus wrote: ... Part 3: Átila Átila said he'd asked Roy after DConf if he wanted to write a spec for the new shared semantics but hadn't yet received a reply. He thought we could go ahead with it anyway, as it's probably going to be obvious in all the cases what we should do. He'd also been thinking about Robert's suggestions regarding safe code, and the more he'd done so, the more they made sense. He didn't think we needed to wait for editions, because then we could solve all the problems we've had with DIP 1000, possibly in one fell swoop. The whole issue was we were making people have to add scope everywhere because they use @safe, even if the functions weren't doing anything "unscopey". They wouldn't have to anymore because it would only apply to @trusted. He thought we should go ahead with that, too. Another thing: he'd been trying to play around with Timon's idea of pointers that have a compile-time enum saying if they're isolated or not. He wanted to do a proof of concept with a vector type and some allocators to see what that looks like. That might inform some decisions on how to add isolated to the language. He'd also been thinking about how we could do editions. I brought up an email Átila had sent recently about what features should go in the next edition. I suggested that's not what we need to be thinking about right now. We should first define exactly how editions were going to be implemented. For example, Walter had suggested the approach of attaching editions to module declarations. There are other possibilities. So we need to define what that looks like first. We should also be thinking about which features we need to have stabilized in the current language, which is going to be the default edition. What's broken now that we're not going to fix now, but want to defer until the first new edition? Átila agreed. He said he'd wanted to know what we could maybe do with the new edition so that it could inform what potential issues could arise rather than dealing with it in the abstract. It's more because of that. Not even, "that's what we're going to do", but "what would we do if we could do anything" so that we could think of what could go wrong. I thought this should be a high priority for us. I proposed that we put it on the agenda of our next planning session. Everyone agreed. (SPOILER: I'll post the September planning update a day or so after this summary, but in that session, we agreed that Átila would write up the proposal for editions by November 1st. We've since extended that to December.) Before yielding his time, Átila said he'd like to write a program that fetches all of the dub packages and checks which ones still built so he could get a list of stuff we need to test the kinds of modifications like the shared and safe stuff, along with as many future dub packages as possible, instead of the hand-selected, curated list we have now. Dennis thought even Phobos would break. He said that DIP 1000 was not a breaking change. The breaking change was fixing the accepts invalid bug that, so far, slicing a local static array has been allowed. Robert's proposal was strictly more breakage than DIP 1000. Átila said he understood that, but that code was obviously wrong anyway. The code was broken. It's just that the compiler didn't tell people. And the issue with DIP 1000 was adoption. The issue with that was having to add scope everywhere. I said that's the kind of thing I was talking about earlier. If fixing shared or scope or anything was going to break a lot of code, shouldn't we defer fixing them to a new edition and not do it in the default language? Walter said DIP 1000 clearly had to be in an edition. Átila said, "Okay." But the shared thing is a no-brainer. The code is completely wrong and we're not going to break anything by lowering it to atomics. Walter agreed. Timon asked if the idea is to do operations on shared variables atomically. Walter said yes, for the ones where the CPU supports an atomic operation. If the CPU doesn't support an atomic operation on a variable, then it will not be allowed. It varies by target. Timon said yes, but an atomic operation is not the only way to synchronize something. Átila said that's true, but the thing is, there's always an opt-out by casting away shared yourself. If you're going to do something to shared directly, you should either pass it to a function that takes shared, or cast it away and lock a mutex, or whatever you want. Timon brought up Manu's push to just reject all of those operations. Átila said that doesn't work. He'd been trying to fix it this year and it's been one bug after another. Timon asked what the issue with that was. Átila said there were many, but gave one example: synchronized(mutex) doesn't compile with -preview=nosharedaccess because you're accessing the mutex. The runtime
Re: DLF September 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary
On Monday, 13 November 2023 at 04:46:07 UTC, matheus wrote:
...
Part 2:
AST nodes in dmd-as-a-library
Since DConf, Razvan had been considering how dmd-as-a-library
could offer the possibility to override any kind of AST.
He gave us this example of the expression class hierarchy used by
the AST implementation:
module expression;
import std.stdio;
class Expression {}
class BinExp : Expression
{
void fun()
{
writeln("expression.fun");
BinExp p = new BinExp();
Expression e = new Expression();
}
}
class BinAssignExp : BinExp
{}
class AddAssignExp : BinAssignExp
{
override void fun()
{
writeln("AddAssignExp");
}
}
class MulAssignExp : BinAssignExp
{}
Then in ast_family.d, the default ASTCodegen looks like this:
struct ASTCodegen
{
public import expression;
}
To create a custom AST and override the default behavior of e.g.,
BinExp, you need to do something like this:
struct MyAST
{
import expression;
import std.stdio;
alias Expression = expression.Expression;
class MyBinExp : expression.BinExp
{
override void fun()
{
writeln("MyBinExp.fun");
}
}
alias BinExp = MyBinExp;
alias BinAssignExp = ?
}
The problem with this is that you now have to declare all of the
AST nodes that inherit from BinExp so that they use your custom
implementation. This is not a workable solution. We need the
ability to specify not only that we're overriding a particular
node, but that other nodes need to use it.
First, he thought about templating the AST nodes and inheriting
from the templated version, but that means heavily modifying the
compiler. Then he came up with a solution using mixins. You just
mixin the code of the AST node that you want.
With this approach, the AST nodes are now mixin templates:
module expression_mixins;
import std.stdio;
mixin template Epression_code()
{
class Expression {}
}
mixin template BinExp_code()
{
class BinExp : Expression
{
void fun()
{
writeln("expression.fun");
BinExp p = new BinExp();
Expression e = new Expression();
}
}
}
mixin template BinAssignExp_code()
{
class BinAssignExp : BinExp
{}
}
mixin template AddAssignExp_code()
{
class AddAssignExp : BinAssignExp
{
override void fun()
{
writeln("AddAssignExp");
}
}
}
mixin template MulAssignExp_code()
{
class MulAssignExp : BinAssignExp
{}
}
And then the expression module becomes:
module expression;
import expression_mixins;
import std.stdio;
mixin Expression_code();
mixin BinExp_code();
mixin BinAssignExp_code();
mixin AddAssignExp_code();
mixin MulAssignExp_code();
In ast_family, ASTCodegen remains the same, but now you can do
this for your custom AST:
struct MyAst
{
import expression_mixins;
import std.stdio;
mixin Expression_code();
mixin BinExp_code() t;
class MyBinExp : t.BinExp
{
override void fun()
{
writeln("MyBinExp.fun");
}
}
alias BinExp = MyBinExp;
mixin BinAssignExp_code();
mixin AddAssignExp_code();
mixin MulAssignExp_code();
}
We could have something in the frontend library to generate the
boilerplate automatically. But the main thing is that now you can
replace any default node in the hierarchy with your custom
implementation without needing to redeclare everything. In this
example, everything that inherits from BinExp is now going to
inherit from MyBinExp instead. This works. He showed a runnable
example.
He doesn't think this is that ugly. And for what it gives us,
basically a pluggable AST, any perceived ugliness is worth it. He
said it would be great if we could reach a consensus on how to go
forward.
Átila said he liked it.
Razvan noted that a problem is that the semantic routine visitors
aren't going to work anymore. But the cool thing is you can also
put those in mixins. You mix those in with your custom AST, you
inherit from and override whatever visiting nodes you want, and
you get all of the functionality you need.
Timon said his main concern with this kind of scheme is that he
has tried them in the past, and usually dmd dies when it tries to
build itself. He thinks the current version of dmd will choke on
this at some point. It always appears to work at the start, but
if you scale it up enough, random stuff starts to break, like an
"undefined identifier string", a general forward reference error,
or an ICE, etc.
Razvan said he had encountered the undefined identifier thing,
but you can work around that by inserting an alias in the problem
spot. Regardless, he argued that any such error is a compiler bug
that needs to be fixed.
Timon agreed, but his question was how do you navigate that when
the compiler can't build itself because of a compiler bug? Razvan
said he'd fix the bug.
Dennis noted
Re: DLF September 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary
On Monday, 13 November 2023 at 03:07:07 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Monday, 13 November 2023 at 00:55:37 UTC, zjh wrote:
On Sunday, 12 November 2023 at 19:50:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
https://gist.github.com/mdparker/f28c9ae64f096cd06db6b987318cc581
I can't access it,please post it here.
I can't. It's too big. That's why I posted it there.
Well maybe splitting in 2 parts? - Let's try:
Part 1:
DLF September 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary
The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for September 2023
took place on Friday the 15th at 15:00 UTC. After we'd had one of
our shortest meetings ever the previous month, this one was a bit
of a long one, lasting a little over two hours.
Note that this was Timon Gehr's first time joining us for a
monthly. I'd spoken with him at DConf, and he'd expressed
interest in joining both our monthlies and our planning sessions
when he has the time for them. I'll be inviting him as a
permanent member as long as he's willing to be one.
The Attendees
The following people attended the meeting:
Walter Bright
Timon Gehr
Martin Kinkelin
Dennis Korpel
Mathias Lang
Átila Neves
Razvan Nitu
Mike Parker
Adam D. Ruppe
Robert Schadek
Steven Schveighoffer
Robert
Robert got us started by letting us know he had done some
preliminary JSON 5 work at DConf. He also gave an update on his
script for the Bugzilla to GitHub migration. He had changed it to
use a "hidden" API that someone from GitHub revealed to him when
he reached out for assistance. Though there are still rate limits
to deal with, his script was now much faster. The previous script
would have taken days to migrate the dmd issues, but for a test
run, he was able to do it in one sitting at DConf. He was ready
to show me how to use it so I could test it and provide him with
feedback.
Other than that, he'd done a few small things on DScanner and was
waiting on Jan Jurzitza (Webfreak) to merge them. He noted that
Walter had asked him to write an article for the blog related to
his DConf talk. Robert had an idea for an article related to the
DScanner updates to supplement the talk.
(UPDATE: During a subsequent planning session, Robert reminded me
that the only reason I had volunteered to do the migration was
that he didn't have admin access to our repositories. That was
easily rectified. He will now be doing the migration. At our most
recent planning session, we talked about a migration plan. Before
taking any steps, he's going to chat with Vladimir Panteleev.
Vladimir raised several concerns with me a while back about the
Dlang bot and other things the migration might affect. Robert
wants to get up to speed with all of that before moving forward.)
Me
I told everyone I'd just gotten home from my DConf/vacation trip
two days before the meeting and had spent a chunk of that time
decompressing. I did manage to get a little bit of post-DConf
admin out of the way the night before by going through all the
receipts from everyone eligible for reimbursement to let them
know how much was due to them. I went into some details on how I
was going to make those payments. The big news there was that we
managed to get enough in revenue from registrations and
sponsorships that we came in under budget, i.e., the amount
Symmetry needed to send us to make up the difference was less
than the total they'd allocated for reimbursements. (Thanks to
Ahrefs, Ucora, Decard, Funkwerk, and Weka for helping out with
that!)
I then reported that I'd started editing Saeed's video. The venue
had provided me access to all of their footage this year. Last
year, they only gave me footage from one camera and wanted us to
pay extra for more. This year, I have footage from three cameras
('main', 'wide', and 'left') as well as the video feed of the
slides.
Next, I noted that John Colvin and I had participated in an
after-action meeting with Sarah and Eden from Brightspace, our
event planners (if you were at DConf, Eden was the young woman
sitting out front all four days, and Sarah was with her on the
first day). We all agreed that, aside from the unfortunate laptop
theft and COVID outbreak, the mechanics of the conference went
well this year. We went through some feedback we'd received to
discuss how to improve things next year (more info on badges, an
actual registration form to get that info, etc.), and tossed
around some ideas on how to prevent future thefts and mitigate
the risk of COVID outbreaks. One thing we agreed on there is to
have an extra person at the door whose main job is to check
badges. There will surely be other steps to take once we consult
with the venue. They're evaluating what measures they can take to
avoid a repeat at any event they host.
I also let everyone know what Sarah said about our community. Due
to disruptions at Heathrow at the start of the conference,
several attendees found themselves with canceled flights. A
Re: From the D Blog: Crafting Self-Evident Code in D
On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 at 13:39:33 UTC, user1234 wrote: On Monday, 2 October 2023 at 17:28:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: It's been a long, long while since I published anything on the blog. I do intend to get pick it up again down the road, but Walter recently surprised me with plans of his own. He's taken the topic of his DConf '23 talk and derived a blog post from it: https://dlang.org/blog/2023/10/02/crafting-self-evident-code-with-d/ I guess he got impatient with the pace at which I'm getting the talk videos uploaded :-) And for anyone who'd like to engage in any Reddit discussion that comes up: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/16y2h36/crafting_selfevident_code_in_dlang/ A message specifically dedicated for you, Mike. According to me there is a problem in the blog. Author and publication date should be put on top of an entry (currently the information are only at the bottom). I agree, in fact I was about to say the same thing for awhile now but I always forget. =] Matheus.
Re: From the D Blog: Crafting Self-Evident Code in D
On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 at 13:33:29 UTC, Dom DiSc wrote: On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 at 10:39:19 UTC, matheus wrote: I the first example "e" is receiving two arguments. While in the latter "d" is being receiving whatever "c" returns and "3". That's the point. In UFCS it is immediately obvious which function receives the 3, while with all the parenthesis it takes some time and concentration to find out, and getting it wrong is quiet easy. I understand the advantages of the UFCS, I was just pointing out that the example given in that post are NOT equivalent, if it was deliberated or not I don't know, but I think it was just a small mistake, otherwise the author woundn't say they are equivalent. Matheus.
Re: From the D Blog: Crafting Self-Evident Code in D
On Monday, 2 October 2023 at 17:28:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: It's been a long, long while since I published anything on the blog. I do intend to get pick it up again down the road, but Walter recently surprised me with plans of his own. He's taken the topic of his DConf '23 talk and derived a blog post from it: https://dlang.org/blog/2023/10/02/crafting-self-evident-code-with-d/ I guess he got impatient with the pace at which I'm getting the talk videos uploaded :-) And for anyone who'd like to engage in any Reddit discussion that comes up: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/16y2h36/crafting_selfevident_code_in_dlang/ Nice article but I think that I found a bug: g(f(e(d(c(b(a))),3))); a.b.c.d(3).e.f.g; "That’s the equivalent, but execution flows clearly left-to-right. Is this an extreme example, or the norm?" Well I don't think they're equivalent: g(f(e(d(c(b(a))),3))); I the first example "e" is receiving two arguments. While in the latter "d" is being receiving whatever "c" returns and "3". Matheus.
Re: DConf '23 Talk Videos
On Wednesday, 20 September 2023 at 12:43:49 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Wednesday, 20 September 2023 at 08:41:01 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: My feeling is this could be a faulty power supply. You should try a new PSU first. How old is the hardware? It's a two-year-old box. Yes, it could be the PSU, but in my experience when they go bad it manifests in more than one way. I've had a couple of them fail over the years. At any rate, the guy I took it to will zero in on it. I'll have a definitive answer tomorrow. If I'm lucky, a full internal cleaning of the graphics card and some new thermal paste will solve it. I'm usually not that lucky, though :-) Not a HW expert, but lowering the GPU settings couldn't at least get the job done (Slower but... done). Matheus.
Re: DConf '23 Livestream Links
On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 at 16:39:00 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 at 14:31:17 UTC, matheus wrote: I just hope we don't have the old "split" slides with presenter. I have eye impairment and the last one was hard to watch. I'll talk to the video crew and ask them to show more of the fullscreen slides and less of the split screen. I waited for the live stream before posting, and now I can only say THANK YOU. I'm really liking all the talking so far and the presentation is nicely done. Matheus.
Re: D Language Foundation August 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary
On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 at 12:59:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ... Adam said his library compiled in half a second. Robert said that was still too slow. His work project didn't compile in half a second. He said his goal was that by the time of the key-up event after pressing 'Enter' on Ninja or whatever build tool/compiler he's using, it should have already restarted the application. Átila agreed that half a second was too long. ... Reading over about other languages CT problems I wonder how this half second is too terrible. =] I mean I'm not against Robert's complain, I don't know how complex his software is, and CT maybe is really a problem for him. But for example where I work we use C# and so on, and CT is not great either, and if it is a web project, well just to start a local server and so on takes much more than 1 second, in fact I'd trade many things to have this 1 second or anything closer to that. Of course if you measure things and keep watching you will see the difference, but in daily basis, while changing code, compiling etc. I barely see any difference between 500ms to 1000ms. Matheus. PS: I'm ESL please if anything sound rough, forgive me! I'm just sharing a thought.
Re: DConf '23 Livestream Links
On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 at 13:30:27 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The countdown is on! ... Nice I'm really waiting for it. By the way I just think that I watched all DConfs till now! I just hope we don't have the old "split" slides with presenter. I have eye impairment and the last one was hard to watch. Matheus.
Re: Memory Safer in a Systems Programming Language Part 3
On Thursday, 5 January 2023 at 12:10:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've just published the third and final article in Ate Eskola's series on memory safety in D. Parts 1 and 2 were primarily about DIP1000. In this post, he digs into function attribute inference. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2023/01/05/memory-safety-in-a-systems-programming-language-part-3/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/103xcha/memory_safety_in_the_d_programming_language_part_3/ Another great article, and by the way I think D organization is doing a great job publishing these articles and videos to gather more attention. Matheus.
Re: D Contributor Tutorials Part 1 - Building the Compiler From Source
On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 11:27:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ... Awesome and I'm looking forward to see some debugging in these series. Matheus.
Re: DConf Online '22 Day One Livestream
On Sunday, 18 December 2022 at 10:35:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ... Sorry, I don't know what you mean by "not listed". It's in the DConf Online '22 playlist and it's linked at the top of the schedule. Can you be more specific about where it's missing? Oh I see now, I was looking on the channel: https://yewtu.be/channel/UC5DNdmeE-_lS6VhCVydkVvQ Now I see there is a playlist: https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=PLIldXzSkPUXV2Uz4ODqHxRAP_Y4FxYon- So everything is fine. Thanks, Matheus.
Re: DConf Online '22 Day One Livestream
On Saturday, 17 December 2022 at 13:12:23 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The DConf Online Day One Q & A Livestream kicks off in less than an hour. See you there! https://youtu.be/DAIskYu9Imo I couldn't watch live (Working), but I'm doing it now and I have to say that I really enjoy this format a lot. By the way, this video https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DAIskYu9Imo (DConf Online '22 Day One Q & A Livestream) is not listed, it will be? Thanks, Matheus.
Re: Ali introduced D at Northeastern University
On Tuesday, 4 October 2022 at 05:26:53 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: DConf 2022 speaker Mike Shah[1] had invited me to give a presentation for the computer science students at Northeastern University... Awesome, I really like the presentation a lot and this should be shared more, these kind of videos is good to show the strength of the language. By the way, the way the way the slides was presented + small window showing Ali is good and should be used in the futures DConf too. Thanks for doing this Ali and sharing with us, Matheus.
Re: Walter's Edited DConf Talk Video -- Feedback Request
On Thursday, 8 September 2022 at 17:34:53 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ... Sorry it's less legible for you. Hi Mike, in any case I'd like to say thank you very much for your work and trying to help me, I really appreciated all your effort and time. Yes. I can make that available to you. Email me (aldac...@gmail.com) and I'll set you up. I'll do that this weekend. The slides for John Colvin's video are 16:9, so I'm not doing the picture-in-picture thing for them. Most of them are pretty big in the raw video, but I'm showing a full screen view of each slide anyway for varying periods of time based on what he's saying. I hope this one turns out better for you. Since I'm foreigner I may sound a bit rough in my comments, but I really appreciated your help. Thanks again, Matheus.
Re: Walter's Edited DConf Talk Video -- Feedback Request
On Thursday, 8 September 2022 at 15:02:47 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I've seen other conference streams where the image of the speaker is very narrow, and therefore they can consume most of the screen with the slides. I think that's ideal. I don't disagree with the slides on the screen, my problem was when showing this way: https://imgur.com/1LeGPRd , for example I was reading the slide normally live until the screen would split and now 2 tiny texts (Remembering: For me watching on the phone with vision impairment it was tough), and still is since I do it mostly on phone while I'm doing interval at work. I think one or another should be used, but the original video was enough/readable as is (At least for me) without that split. Matheus.
Re: Walter's Edited DConf Talk Video -- Feedback Request
On Thursday, 8 September 2022 at 10:40:41 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Are you still talking about the edited version? Hi Mike, yes through this URL: https://youtu.be/iuP-AWUyjp8 I watched the first minutes because I'm at work, but I saw the same thing as before, I'll take a picture later to show the problem if needed, I just can't do it now because I'm at work. ... I didn't like the random switching in the livestream (which is what the recorded version is), which is why I decided to edit. I don't like either, and in DConf it wasn't even needed to to that since the slides was already fully visible through the video, my problem was the size when in split screen mode with 2 small texts while watching on my phone (Which is watch I use mostly), and with vision impairment it's tough. By the way, is there any recorded version with that same camera from far behind without any edition (ie: split screen)? Thanks, Matheus.
Re: Walter's Edited DConf Talk Video -- Feedback Request
On Wednesday, 7 September 2022 at 12:42:35 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ... Well thanks for trying but I think the main problem remains, as I pointed in here: https://forum.dlang.org/post/zkfmlbzmxlrqwnugr...@forum.dlang.org I usually watch videos at work (During interval) using my personal phone/internet, and watching as (https://imgur.com/1LeGPRd) two small texts of the same thing with visual impairment is tough. My tip is for the next DConf, people in charge of recording should watch all the previous Conferences and take what went right (The conference at facebook was well done), because this was new to me, usually when the slide is *NOT* presented on the screen they show it in full for a few seconds or when the presenter is explaining, this way was very weird and the first time I see this. As for the sound, I have no complaints. Matheus.
Re: Beta 2.100.2
On Thursday, 1 September 2022 at 04:34:40 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: ... Anywhere in the ballpark of an $750 to $1300 annual fee. Can only give an estimate as on top of the eye-watering EV prices, there may be more equally high fees for attestation and cloud signing. To put that in context, the original certificate ordered in 2018 cost only $267 and was valid for **3 years**. That's a price inflation of over 150% year-on-year! ... Wow I didn't know it was so expensive. I mean it was somewhat reasonable back in the day ($267 for 36 months ~ $ 7.41 per month), now it can be around ~ $ 62 to $ 108, too much expensive. I'm foreigner and if in need I can throw in $ 30.00 per month, but I think this must be paid upfront for a year. But since you said nobody is complaining maybe just let it be. Thanks for the info, Matheus.
Re: Beta 2.100.2
On Wednesday, 31 August 2022 at 13:20:51 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.100.2 point release, Thanks. N.B.: We had some delays to clarify the expired EV certificate and the next releases will ship without signed Windows binaries due to the complications and cost of EV certificates. Is possible to share the costs for this? Matheus.
Re: DConf '22 Livestream Links
On Wednesday, 3 August 2022 at 09:28:29 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 1 August 2022 at 21:37:38 UTC, matheus wrote: On Monday, 1 August 2022 at 20:08:52 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: The first part is missing due to a late click on the “go live” button. I assume the footage is still recorded, and will be part of the edited video. — Bastiaan. Alright thanks and fingers crossed. Matheus. Yeah, sorry about that. That was a silly mistake. The recording will be fine though. It's independent of the livestream. Nice to hear this. By the way I guess you will upload all talks individually later, so when you do *please* get rid of the split screen, i.e.: https://i.imgur.com/1LeGPRd.png https://i.imgur.com/hN6YmG8.png It may seem that's nothing important for some people, but since I have vision impairment, looking small texts splitted like this is terrible and unnecessary since the slide is clearly visible on the background and could be even better if the screen was larger instead of these splits. Thanks, Matheus.
Re: DConf '22 Livestream Links
On Monday, 1 August 2022 at 20:08:52 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Monday, 1 August 2022 at 12:45:56 UTC, Matheus wrote: On Monday, 25 July 2022 at 13:52:51 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: For those of you who can't join us in person at DConf '22 in London next week, you can join us instead via each day's livestream link: * Day 1: https://youtu.be/V6KFtzF2Hx8 Anyway I accessed the link and I don't know if it is a youtube limit, but as far I can go back, it starts with Walter talking about Octals. Was it the first part missing or is it a limit? The first part is missing due to a late click on the “go live” button. I assume the footage is still recorded, and will be part of the edited video. — Bastiaan. Alright thanks and fingers crossed. Matheus.
Re: DConf '22 Livestream Links
On Monday, 25 July 2022 at 13:52:51 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: For those of you who can't join us in person at DConf '22 in London next week, you can join us instead via each day's livestream link: * Day 1: https://youtu.be/V6KFtzF2Hx8 So it started, cool. But I missed the beginning because the timing, it would be dawn here. Anyway I accessed the link and I don't know if it is a youtube limit, but as far I can go back, it starts with Walter talking about Octals. Was it the first part missing or is it a limit? Strangely it's the first time I'd see this limit. Another thing, please do the split screen with slides only with the slide is not visible, otherwise we have 2 small pieces of the same thing: https://i.imgur.com/1LeGPRd.png https://i.imgur.com/hN6YmG8.png See? Anyway good luck on the conference, Matheus.
Re: D Community Conversations: Walter Bright on the Origins of D Part 1
On Sunday, 10 July 2022 at 16:17:11 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ... Very nice interview, and if you don't mind can I give you a suggestion? I'd like to suggest that you don't make these "micro-cuts" through the interview/discussion, let it flow. I've been seeing this around these videos and I think it's better to let it go as is (Like it was live). Or if possible have the 2 versions (With and without cuts). Thanks, Matheus.
Re: Adding Modules to C on Hacker news
On Tuesday, 28 June 2022 at 00:14:37 UTC, zjh wrote: On Monday, 27 June 2022 at 18:27:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: #28 on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/news I got a mirror website of `"youtube"` yesterday. Who knows mirror of ` https://news.ycombinator.com/news `? I'd suggest you to try sites like "archive.org" or "archive.is", at least for the latter even it's not archived you can get a snapshot from a site. Alternatively you could try some cached version using google search too. Matheus. PS: Since I don't enter in the site mentioned, I can't help you with snapshots.
Re: D Language Foundation June 2022 Monthly Meeting Summary
On Saturday, 25 June 2022 at 02:10:34 UTC, zjh wrote: On Saturday, 25 June 2022 at 02:02:36 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: The best introduction is probably Walter Bright's DConf 2016 talk, "Spelunking D Compiler Internals": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNJhtKPugSQ I can't access `'Youtube'`. It would be better if there were `articles` to detailed introduce it. Now I only know the general purpose of each `'DMD'` file which `D` author introduced, and I don't know anything more details. Can't you access any indivious instances: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=bNJhtKPugSQ ? Matheus.
Re: Q & A with Razvan Nitu and Dennis Korpel
On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 14:43:04 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've started a new series on our YouTube channel that I'm calling 'D Community Q & A Sessions'. These are short sessions focused on specific topics. Very nice thing to do and show some engagement with community. There is no subtitle available (Auto-translate), is this because some configuration on the video or is this just a youtube problem? And by the way the opening reminds me one of those TV News, interesting. Matheus.
Re: D Language Foundation April Quarterly Meeting and Server Meeting Summaries
On Wednesday, 4 May 2022 at 16:21:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ... Iain had been waylaid by covid for most of the preceding month... Take care. ...This led Ali to make a New Year's Resolution to start working with Visual Studio Code with D. Yikes. ## The Next Meeting Our next meeting is a monthly DLF meeting. It's happening on May 6 at 14:00 UTC. I currently do not have anything major on the agenda. If there's something you'd like to bring to the foundation and you can attend the meeting, please let me know and I'll make room for you. Open this one to everyone at least as listeners, it would be nice to see the engagement from the community. Matheus.
Re: Adding Modules to C in 10 Lines of Code
Invidious instances: https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=2ImfbGm0fls https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=2ImfbGm0fls https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=2ImfbGm0fls https://inv.riverside.rocks/watch?v=2ImfbGm0fls https://invidious.weblibre.org/watch?v=2ImfbGm0fls https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=2ImfbGm0fls https://invidious.osi.kr/watch?v=2ImfbGm0fls And much more: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=2ImfbGm0fls Matheus.
Re: RESCHEDULED - Silicon Valley D Meetup - March 18, 2022 - "D's new ImportC for easier C library usage"
On Wednesday, 16 March 2022 at 23:52:57 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: ... Hi Ali, Any chance this will be available for watch later? Thanks, Matheus.
Re: Teaching D at a Russian University
On Sunday, 20 February 2022 at 03:44:42 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: Yes, this is a perfectly correct use of "for" as a coordinating conjunction. [1] It may come across as a bit formal or old-fashioned, though—in normal speech, you'd usually use "since". [1] https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/grammarpunct/coordconj/ Interesting, since English is not my first language, if in that sentence instead of "for" there was the word "since", I wouldn't have been bothered, but since it was the first time I saw the usage of "for" in that way, I found awkward. After that I even look into a translator which gave the same translation with "since" and "for" in that sentence. Well living and learning. :) Matheus.
Re: Teaching D at a Russian University
On Saturday, 19 February 2022 at 15:10:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
...
Interesting article. And I think it would be nice if that teacher
had taken a pool asking what they think after finishing with D vs
C/C++ which they learned before.
Oh and I'm curious about what compiler they're using, DMD maybe?
I think this should be pointed out since he talked about the
performance issues on machines with less than 2GB of RAM.
By the way English isn't my first language but I think there is a
small typo:
"In D, such nuances are fewer, for header files are not required."
I think it's missing the word "example":
"In D, such nuances are fewer, for example header files are not
required."
Finally I think the blog should get rid of this style:
.site-content article {
word-wrap: break-word;
-moz-hyphens: auto;
hyphens: auto;
}
For me it's very distracting thing.
Matheus.
Re: "D Programlama Dili" is available
On Sunday, 13 February 2022 at 02:50:43 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: So, here it is: https://www.amazon.com/Programlama-Dili-Temelden-Bilgisayar-Programc%C4%B1l%C4%B1%C4%9F%C4%B1/dp/1087933064 First congratulations for that. P.S. As a reminder, all books are freely available here: http://ddili.org/ This is very neat to share your work freely. P.P.S. The $34 that I currently see is waaay too expensive for the Turkish market. I'm from Brazil and this is the same problem we have with Amazon here for either version (Printed or Online), our currency is undervalued and the prices is too right. The funny thing is, a few years ago I got this book where the author had published on Amazon, but on the other hand anyone could get the same book (In PDF) on the author's site and "pay whatever they want". I found the book so nicely done that I decided to send some money through PayPal, and after that the author then wrote me back to thank me and send another book (Attached), because he said that what I paid to him was too much against the percentage he would receive from Amazon. Matheus.
Re: The DIID series (Do It In D)
On Tuesday, 25 January 2022 at 08:44:34 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: I'll consider fixing this. I always read "How good really is X?" as "this is bad" and "How bad really is X?" as "this is good" probably because for the french the best appreciation you can get is "not bad!" Brazilian here and it's the same for me. Like for example, you can browse and see things like: "Is this cheap guitar brand really bad?" And then you watch the review and this good guitar player surprises everyone with a good sound from that cheap guitar. Usually titles like: Is "something" really bad? - Shows just the opposite. Is "something" really good? - Probably will show how bad that thing is. At least for me and for what I've been seeing online. Finally about your OT, this a good initiative and nice to see these implementations in D. Matheus.
Re: On the D Blog -- Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language?
On Friday, 24 December 2021 at 04:58:20 UTC, zjh wrote: On Friday, 24 December 2021 at 03:53:07 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Does the site crash e.g. with an error code or does the browser crash? More information may help debug it. Ali Many times, it is estimated that a `JS` is too large to load. Not only did `the browser` crash, but even the `computer` crashed. Mine is `32-bit, 2G` computer. What OS and Browser? I just tested on an old 32 bit machine with 2GB of RAM and both Chrome and Firefox worked normally. On Chrome I see there are some errors in some scripts though: Uncaught ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined navigation.js:55 Uncaught ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined select2.min.js:21 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'fn' of undefined mivhak.min.js:1 But even with these errors it load normally. Finally in both browsers I use only one extension: ublock origin, which blocked some trackers from twitter, facebook. And on Firefox it indeed almost freezes for a like 2 seconds, and occurs with the status bar showing: "Read c0.wp.com", after that the page finished loading. Matheus.
Re: D + Qt + QtDesigner
On Wednesday, 1 December 2021 at 13:55:32 UTC, zjh wrote: On Wednesday, 1 December 2021 at 13:21:53 UTC, Matheus wrote: Can't you use https://yt5s.com/ to download the video from youtube? Matheus. I can't.`Many websites` are inaccessible. Internet Archive? -If yes I'll upload there. Matheus.
Re: D + Qt + QtDesigner
On Sunday, 28 November 2021 at 01:04:01 UTC, zjh wrote: On Saturday, 27 November 2021 at 16:58:11 UTC, Gavin Ray wrote: **@zjh**, I hope you can access it here.https://mega.nz/file/FhgCwRSJ#NFqvJfXx2K_cy6DKNQIMCbqMQURgBsj8tTuMxpZSuLw Although I still can't access it... Can't you use https://yt5s.com/ to download the video from youtube? Matheus.
Re: DConf Online 2021 Links
On Monday, 22 November 2021 at 14:00:22 UTC, zjh wrote: On Monday, 22 November 2021 at 13:34:44 UTC, Matheus wrote: Thank you. The main problem is that many `links/videos` can't be accessed due to `GFW`. I don't know the meaning of GFW, but currently I watch everything through Invidious without problem, sometimes I do have to try another Instance because is blocked in one instance (Region), but the download always work for me independently of the Instance. Matheus.
Re: DConf Online 2021 Links
On Monday, 22 November 2021 at 01:10:54 UTC, zjh wrote: On Sunday, 21 November 2021 at 16:08:54 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Sorry, no. I found a [video to text] tool, [address](https://yunmaovideo.com/extract-text/)Here, try and convert it. Or you can just go to an Invidious instance and download the Captions from there. For example: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6TDZa5LUBzY On the left side there is an option: "Download as", and them choose "Subtitles - English (Auto-Generated) .vtt". Some videos will not show this because there is no Caption generated or it's not updated on the Invidious server yet, so just wait a day or two. Finally about the DConf, I really liked the talks. Matheus.
Re: D Language Foundation Quarterly Meeting, October 2021
On Friday, 5 November 2021 at 11:57:40 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ... Nice summary, but why these meetings are no recorded or streamed? Matheus.
Re: On the Blog: DLang News for September/October 2021
On Sunday, 31 October 2021 at 19:26:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The video version is done and is available here: https://youtu.be/jX9grHMTGAU Great and I hope you do more of these videos. Just one tip, in this video you're talking and highlighting some texts, could you please increase the size of the fonts or zoom in next time? Thanks, Matheus.
Re: DConf Online 2021 Schedule Published
On Friday, 8 October 2021 at 08:23:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ... Adam currently intends for his livecoding session to be a continuation of the project he started in last year's session. He may change his mind before then, though, and I'll update the page if he does. Adam beyond the continuation... we need a new and simply Web Browser written in D. :) Matheus.
Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting -- June 2021
Was the meeting recorded? Where can we watch? Matheus.
Re: Destroy All Memory Corruption
On Thursday, 22 April 2021 at 01:31:09 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 4/19/21 6:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote: I'll be doing a reprise of my DConf 2020 talk on Destroy All Memory Corruption on April 21, 2021 at 7PM PST. https://nwcpp.org/ Except this time it'll be live, not prerecorded. All are welcome! This is happening in half an hour. It requires MS Teams, which requires a MS (or Skype) account. Ali Just a pity that in this day and age with all the methods/ways available to stream a video they use such platform. This restrains people like myself to participate/watch, and I believe much more. Please when doing such thing, have a backup strategy that people can watch on any browser without account or installing anything. Matheus.
Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup - March 18, 2021 - "Templates in the D Programming Language" by Ali Çehreli
On Thursday, 18 March 2021 at 16:12:32 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Understood. Mike Parker contacted me about potentially recording this as well but unfortunately, there is no structure at all and I can't come up with anything that is worth recording in a few hours now. Let's skip this occasion and I promise I will put some slides and a recording later. So, this meeting will be more like a chat anchored on templates. Ali Ok no problem. Thanks, Matheus.
Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup - March 18, 2021 - "Templates in the D Programming Language" by Ali Çehreli
On Thursday, 18 March 2021 at 10:29:20 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: This will be as informal as meetups get: There aren't even slides (yet?). :) Would jitsi work for you? If so, we may decide to move over there and I would post the meeting link and the password here at 18:55 Pacific Time, as Iain does for BeerConf. Ali Hi Ali, Well I never tried it, but if it's possible to watch on a browser I definitely can try. But another reason that I pointed youtube re-transmission, is that at least where I live this service has no "buffering" for live streaming, while other services use to be pretty bad in this regard. Thanks for the support, Matheus.
Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup - March 18, 2021 - "Templates in the D Programming Language" by Ali Çehreli
On Wednesday, 17 March 2021 at 21:54:27 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I will explain templates in a beginner-friendly way. Although this is announced on Meetup[1] as well, you can connect directly at https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2248614462?pwd=VTl4OXNjVHNhUTJibms2NlVFS3lWZz09 March 18, 2021 Thursday 19:00 Pacific Time Ali [1] https://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/events/kmqcvqyccfbxb/ Is there a way to have a Youtube re-transmission live too? - Unfortunately I can't access this site, and I am interested in this talk. Matheus.
Re: tetris in D in webassembly
On Monday, 10 August 2020 at 15:08:59 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: http://webassembly.arsdnet.net/ tetris.d source here: http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2020_08_03.html#tetris-in-d web assembly source and explanation here: http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2020_08_10.html Short version: BARE MINIMUM druntime port to webassembly together with a bare minimum source port of simpledisplay.d to it as well made that little game playable. In theory we could make a lot more work by building up one function at a time. In practice I gotta get back to real work so don't hold your breath :) Awesome! By the way you should post on reddit (/r/programming) if you haven't already. Matheus.
Re: DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is
On Wednesday, 27 May 2020 at 11:46:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/27/20 6:22 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/27/2020 3:06 AM, rikki cattermole wrote: Open to everybody and it can be recorded by Twitch. I've done the video conferencing many times over the decades. I just don't find it to be productive. Maybe it's some defect in me. They usually go something like this: [attempt at joke snipped] It's safe to assume things have improved over time. Currently because COVID-19 we have (At least where I live) Politicians having meetings online and open to the public and it goes without any problems. I've been saying this since last year, why not go for online meetings to fix things instead of only using this Forum which sometimes posts get neglected and ideas misunderstood. Ouch this is about Technology and people don't use it the right way. Matheus.
Re: DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is
On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 13:16:50 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote: ... But unfortunately, sometimes it still really feels like DIPs from the language maintainers and DIPs from others are handled quite differently by the maintainers. That's was my point about "democracy", maybe not a right word. In fact I really think that in the end someone will need to decide (for good or bad), but it's not the first time I read about this nuances between DIPs created by maintainers and others like you said. I think for such small community, there should be a vote system for those who are actively contributing (I am NOT in this niche by the way) to guide the language. It would be better than a rounds of discussion without any meaning. Matheus.
Re: DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is
On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 12:28:56 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Although it seems an improvement has been made to how he needs to respond to the DIP assessment. It should also include a statement from Atila as well given his position. One thing that need to be clear and for I read it was not remotely answered from Walter is why this DIP process and discussion exists if in the end like it or not it will be incorporated. As an end user, I'd like to know if this language will be guided by community or one person, because it seems the "democracy" is very shallow right now. And again why waste time with this process plus 2 rounds of discussion? I mean just do it and tell in this announcement section about the feature. Matheus.
Re: GCC 10.1 Released
On Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 18:10:10 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: Thanks for you kind reply. Do you mean I should venture out the cave more often? :-) I'm not the OP, but yes you should! :) Anyway thanks for your work and by the way do you have Patreon? Matheus.
Re: DConf 2020 Canceled
On Saturday, 7 March 2020 at 21:58:06 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Let's do a little online thing instead! We could do a chat room, livestream, blog, you know stuff like that. In fact this is something I'd like to see here, and I even proposed the same thing before. You see threads with +50, +100 posts and then nothing fruitful coming, or like the String Interpolation Thread which was rejected after days of talking. Why not go for fast environment like online meeting with webcam? Why wait a year for DConf instead of doing online meeting at least one time a month? Where I work for two years now, some of us like myself can work remotely and in any problem or discuss projects, we gather online. By the way, having everything written is OK, but in process of gathering ideas, this community should for online debate. Matheus.
Re: D Forum Mobile Version - Beta
On Thursday, 28 November 2019 at 04:23:21 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: Granted, that's not to say there isn't room for tweaking. I'd maybe slightly decrease the vertical spacing on the list of subforums (ie, "general", "announce", "Community", "GDC", etc). Being able to ditch the need for most of the JS would, of course, be a huge benefit. And on the list pages (list of subforums and list of threads), yea, a little touch of left margin wouldn't hurt there, just for visual balance. Keeping the thread overview would be nice. Sure every opinion would be welcome for better experience on mobile. ...In any case, I think this visual refresh is a huge improvement, What would be nice if this or whatever better mobile version be hosted on a sub-domain over here, because the current speed of my hosting is just awful. Like for example reddit have 3~4 versions of the same page: Current layout: https://www.reddit.com/r/dlang/ The old layout: https://old.reddit.com/r/dlang/ And 2 compact versions: 1) https://i.reddit.com/r/dlang 2) https://www.reddit.com/r/dlang/.compact With a sub-domain a person could choose what fits better for him. I love it. Thanks.
Re: D Forum Mobile Version - Beta
On Wednesday, 27 November 2019 at 21:32:06 UTC, Johannes Loher
wrote:
... What are your concerns with the regular forum on mobile
devices?
Look at the first post, I showed the diffs between both versions:
https://i.imgur.com/wfmm035.png <- For "me" the new is cleaner.
https://i.imgur.com/LzvhrdQ.png <- I can read more.
https://i.imgur.com/BM13xTw.png <- At the bottom there is a
shortcut to change pages on a topic.
Well I'll not enter in a battle which design is better, all I
know is the current design doesn't works for me on my old LG K4.
* Weird spacing in general. As mentioned before, there is
missing space to the screen border, but in other places, there
is disturbingly much space, e.g. between the different forum
„groups“ (new users, ecosystem etc.)
Let's see this closely and compare these 2 versions:
1) https://i.imgur.com/n2N7Tfx.png <- In the original you need to
scroll down first to see the topics.
2) After scrolling down you will see this:
https://i.imgur.com/tijpNip.png So between the 2 versions, the
new version is only missing one topic (LDC).
I‘m sure, I could mention a lot more, but these are the major
points I immediately noticed. I‘m looking at it in an iPhone 8.
I'd like to see screenshots running on your iPhone 8.
...you mentioned that is intended as readonly. a readonly Forum
Is basically useless imo. Also if it is readonly, why are there
reply and create thread buttons?
Again look my first post where I said:
I use to access this Forum mainly through the WEB version, and
so far It never bothered me when reading on my PC.
But on my phone (An old LG K4) with tiny screen it's not very
pleasant, I use this phone when I'm on the road, I lately I
gave up to read this Forum through it.
So I use this mobile version only when I am on the road, to see
what's happening here, if you ask the mods, all my posts came
from the same IP (Desktop), this mobile version was intended only
to read on my tiny and old mobile phone.
Yes the button (Create a Topic) was decorated while I was testing
("Beta"), but the page inside (Submit Form) wasn't.
Finally I wrote this for myself and I shared with some C# friends
which currently are in doubt between a new language (C++, Rust
and D) for some projects, and they complained about the layout
too, and for what it seems maybe we are the only 5 ~ 6 persons
bothered with this problem.
I'll let this running if my friends showed some interest,
otherwise I'll turn this private for my own use, since I'll be
only user.
Matheus.
PS: I'm foreigner so my English isn't good and I am not a web
designer.
Re: D Forum Mobile Version - Beta
On Wednesday, 27 November 2019 at 10:58:17 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: I’d recommend contacting Vladimir directly, like bachmeier said... OK I'll try that. However, I tried your version and it didn’t work well for me; I’m on an iPhone 6. I prefer the current version in the threaded mode. Could you please explain more about this or take a screenshot? Because so far 4 friends (3 on Android e 1 on iPhone 8 ~ 9 I think) said it works better than the actual version on mobile, their main complain is about the speed and that's because my hosting is slow. I'm using JavaScript to handle some features and hid some elements and for this I set an interval because the some features of this Forum uses JS too. By the way I made this version for "viewing" only. I don’t know how you implemented your version, but if you can make it configurable as one of the current supported view modes, I guess the chances of getting it accepted are higher. It can be set, I'm current using CURL to get the page and setting the style over it. If it was totally 100% static it would be easier and clean, but there are some JS that it was needed to take care of. Thanks, Matheus.
D Forum Mobile Version - Beta
Hi, I use to access this Forum mainly through the WEB version, and so far It never bothered me when reading on my PC. But on my phone (An old LG K4) with tiny screen it's not very pleasant, I use this phone when I'm on the road, I lately I gave up to read this Forum through it. So, I decided to create a "wrapper" of this Forum applying style for small screens like in my case. The result is here: http://www.mazeware.com/dforums.html Here are some diffs between both versions: https://i.imgur.com/wfmm035.png https://i.imgur.com/LzvhrdQ.png https://i.imgur.com/BM13xTw.png I'm sharing this because it may be useful for some people. Finally I'd like to know if it is possible to have this to be acessed direct in your server (Maybe in a new sub-domain), since my hosting is slow. Matheus.
Re: Telegram group for DLang
On Thursday, 5 September 2019 at 08:13:14 UTC, Ernesto Castellotti wrote: I created a group on Telegram for DLang users, currently it is composed of about 10 people from the Italian community. Interesting, but do you mind if I ask what's wrong with IRC? Matheus.
Re: I was able to write some D last week!
On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 at 02:32:22 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: ask me anything you like First of all very this nice and I have been using some of your work like terminal.d with very success! Second: I remember one of Bjarne's talk about creating some levels in C++ for getting things easily, it would be like packages for entrance level: Starter, Medium, Professional etc. Do you think that your libraries could fill this gap for D? Matheus.
D as a C Replacement
I'd like to share this post that I found this on reddit today: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/c8hbo0/d_as_a_c_replacement_the_art_of_machinery/ Matheus.
Re: my first kernel in betterC D
On Sunday, 16 June 2019 at 16:14:26 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: ... Nice indeed, maybe you should mention this on reddit? Matheus.
Re: DConf 2019 Day 2 Livestream
On Thursday, 9 May 2019 at 07:45:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Just checked, it works: https://youtu.be/Vj6jNAlv03o It was posted on reddit too. Matheus.
Re: DConf 2019 Livestream
On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 10:08:37 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote: Any news on that? I've received feedback from several people already that they are not able to to watch the stream because of google docs / webex (e.g. at the workplace of a friend of mine, these things are simply not permitted)... This is unbelievable! With all the always to stream something (Youtube/Twitch/Ustream), they go for something like WebEx, which by the way is terrible, we tried it at my company a year ago and everybody there hated it, we had different problems (No video/audio/freezes) and it was discontinued. Please before any next Conference take a look at these things closely. I've been sharing this conference with friends about this for awhile, and pretty sure nobody will use this WebEx or install any plugin for this. Matheus.
Re: New DConf Blog Post
On Monday, 8 April 2019 at 16:48:19 UTC, Seb wrote: On Monday, 8 April 2019 at 16:42:50 UTC, matheus wrote: On Sunday, 7 April 2019 at 07:03:34 UTC, bauss wrote: [...] Design is a complicated matter and thankfully I'm mostly back-end developer. [...] Please move this discussions and ideas to DFeed ;-) https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed Sorry this may sound weird but I don't have a github account. But if you think this could be useful please go ahead. :) Matheus.
Re: New DConf Blog Post
On Sunday, 7 April 2019 at 07:03:34 UTC, bauss wrote: On Sunday, 7 April 2019 at 06:19:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Saturday, 6 April 2019 at 22:30:58 UTC, bauss wrote: The design is terrible and it really looks unprofessional. While the old site wasn't responsive, the design was at least slightly better. It just doesn't look very well done. I'm not trying to be negative or anything, but it looks like someone who just learn html/css in 1999 tried to make the design of the page. Perhaps raising money to pay an experienced web designer would be a good topic for a fundraiser later this year. I think that would be a great idea. I'd tip in with some cash for that. Design is a complicated matter and thankfully I'm mostly back-end developer. But one thing that I see around here is a excess of borders in the layout which may sound dated and for me a visual pollution. For example let's take this Forum (https://forum.dlang.org): Starting with the names: D Programming Language - New users D Programming Language - Community D Programming Language - Ecosystem . . . Why "D Programming Language" + Something? I think it's pretty obvious when someone is here that they are accessing a D Programming Language Forum. Like I said above I think this forums has an excess of borders and I'd prefer something like this: https://i.imgur.com/OQCPojN.png than what you have today, but this is a personal taste. But I asked a friend who design pages for living and he agreed. In fact he said that we should get rid of "Threads, Posts" columns too, or may give a light background color according the Topic (New users, Community etc.). By the way the Forum is my main grip today when using mobile. Matheus.
Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server
On Friday, 25 January 2019 at 19:11:59 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Did you have trouble? No, the main problem is the person who usually lend his International Card to me only have PayPal account, and I do not want to bother him asking to register in the other options. I'll go with PayPal later and put a note about this. Thanks, Matheus.
Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server
On Friday, 25 January 2019 at 17:01:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ... Nice I'd like to help but I'm foreigner. It's possible to set a PayPal account for this too? Matheus.
